Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Keeling

This case is presented upon certified questions'. The action is one by a passenger against a carrier for damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the carrier’s negligence.

The trial court in its general charge instructed the jury that the defendant owed plaintiff “a high degree of care to prevent his injury in the operation of said train,” and that “a failure to exercise this high degree of care would be negligence.”

And at the request of plaintiff the court gave the following charge: “You are charged by the court that .plaintiff, G. A. Keeling, as shown by the…