Horton v. Texas Midland R. R.

Appellant sued appellee in the court below for damages for personal injuries. Appellant was driving upon Division street in the city of Greenville in a buggy drawn by a single horse. When she reached a point where appellee’s line of railway crossed said street, which was in a deep cut with high embankments, and when, upon the crossing laid by appellee for the use of the public, her horse shied, causing a backward movement of the buggy, and placing same in a position where it was in imminent danger of being pushed or driven into a ditch or water hole by the side of the street and the railway,…