Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Harris

This writ of error was granted because we thought, upon the showing made in the application, there was no evidence of negligence on the part of the railroad company from which the injury suffered by plaintiff, Harris, resulted, but in the argument our attention was called to facts and circumstances to which the plaintiff testified sufficient in our opinion to require the trial court to submit that question, as well as the others, to the jury.

Plaintiff was a passenger in the early morning on one of defendant’s passenger trains from Dallas to Allen. When the train had almost reached the latter…