St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Ricketts

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

Certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District .as follows:

“Appellees, B. F. Bicketts and wife, brought this suit against the appellant to recover damages claimed to have resulted to Mrs. Bicketts for having been carried by her station and been exposed to the cold and rain, causing her to be sick and resulting in her having chronic female troubles, etc. The facts disclose that on the evening of October 29, 1897, appellees and their little girl came from Paris to Greenville, Texas, and stopped at a hotel near the public square. At 2…