Dallas Rapid Transit Railway Co. v. Payne
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. Payne sued the Dallas Rapid Transit Railway Company for personal injuries received as a passenger while alighting from a car in motion, and recovered judgment. On defendant’s appeal it was affirmed and appellant thereupon procured writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Robert L Payne, a minor, by his-next friend H. C. Payne, instituted this suit in the District Court of the Forty-fourth -District, at Dallas, to recover from the Dallas Rapid Transit Company for injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff through the negligence of the company while he was riding as a passenger upon the defendant’s street railroad car in the city of Dallas,, on the 24th day of April, 1902. Defendant pleaded a general denial, and that the injury, if any was received, was caused by the contributory negligence of the plaintiff. The District…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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