Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Overall
Texas Supreme Court
This is an appeal from a judgment for $200 rendered against the railway company for injuries inflicted through alleged negligence of its employes. The injury -was in mashing the little finger of plaintiff by a door closing upon it. The facts are given in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Associate Justice.
The appellee was a passenger on the train of the appellant railway company. The train having stopped at a station, and the door of the car in which he had been riding being opened and fastened, he took position on the platform with his hand resting upon the jamb upon which the door was swung and with his little finger inside the cleat against which the door fitted when closed. . As he testified, while standing in that position a brakeman entered the car and suddenly closed the door. The end of his finger was caught between the door and cleat and was injured. The…
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