Texas & N. O. R. v. Wilkerson

This is an appeal from a judgment in the district court of San Jacinto County in favor of Mrs. Lillie Mae Wilkerson and her husband, Reuben Wilkerson, appellees, against the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, appellant, in a personal injury suit.

On June 14, 1950 the appellees filed their original petition against the appellant alleging that Mrs. Wilkerson on May 13, 1950 was riding as a passenger on the railroad train of the appellant from Cleveland, Texas to Shepherd, Texas, and that when the train stopped and they started to alight therefrom the train thereupon gave a sudden and…