Legal Opinion

Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. York

Texas Supreme Court

Decided June 18, 1889No. 6293PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Error from McLennan. Tried below before Hon. Eugene Williams. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

Hobby, Judge.

Under the view we take of this case it will be unnecessary to dispose of consecutively each assignment of error presented, *365but we will consider such only as we regard most important and which, in our opinion require a reversal of the judgment.

The plaintiff sued defendant to recover actual and exemplary damages for injuries inflicted on her minor son D. A. York through the alleged negligence of defendant’s engineer in charge of its locomotive engine. It was alleged that the injuries permanently disabled her son mentally and physically and deprived her of the benefit of his…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hays v. Houston G. N. R. R. Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1876

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Southern Surety Co. v. Nalle & Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1922
  2. Knapik v. Edison Bros., Inc.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1958
  3. Webb-North Motor Co. v. RossCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1931
  4. Woodward-Wanger Co. v. NelsonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1928
  5. Texas Cent. R. Co. v. DumasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1912

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