Texas Cent. R. Co. v. Claybrook

This suit was instituted by Joseph E. Claybrook and wife, Mrs. Mattie Claybrook, ■ against the Texas Central Railroad Company and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have- been sustained by Mrs. Mattie Claybrook while alighting from a passenger train at the town of Fowler, Tex., and, from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff against both railway companies, the defendants have appealed.

The evidence shows that, upon the occasion in controversy, Mrs. Claybrook boarded a passenger train at the town of Walnut Springs for a trip to Fowler; that…