Austin St. Ry. Co. v. Calhoun

This is a suit for damages arising from personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon defendant in error through the negligence of plaintiff in error in causing its street car to collide with a wagon and team which defendant in error was driving across Congress avenue at its intersection with Second street in the city of Austin, Texas. The acts of negligence charged were, running the car south on Congress avenue at a fast, reckless, and dangerous rate of speed with an inexperienced motorman in charge, said speed being in excess of that fixed by a city ordinance, and that plaintiff in…