Texas & N. O. Ry. Co. v. Adams

Appellee sued appellant for damages for personal injuries growing out of a collision between an automobile in which he was riding and a freight train at a public crossing on appellant’s track some four miles north of the city of Nacogdoches, Tex., March 27, 1928. The collision occurred at about 1:20 a. m. at night, while appellant was backing its engine and tender across' the public road crossing to make a coupling with freight cars standing on the west side of the crossing. Appellee’s car struck the engine just under the engineer’s seat. The train of appellant was doubling what is known as…