Mexican National Railway Co. v. Crum

NEILL, Associate Justice.

The appellee, Charles Crum, a minor, by his next friend, Elena Garza, sued the appellant for $30,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon him by the negligence of appellant.

The plaintiff alleges in his petition as his cause of action, “ That amongst other railways entering and doing business with defendant in the city of Laredo, where plaintiff was injured, was the International & Great Northern Railway Company, whose track was a broad gouge, whilst the track of defendant was a narrow gouge, and owing to the difference in the gouges of the…