Texas Pacific R'y Co. v. Florence

Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 38. Common carriers; damages against for carrying passenger beyond Ms station held excessive and unconscionable; citation insufficient which directs a corporation’s agent, and not the corporation, to be summoned. Appellee, Florence, sued the railroad company for $500 damages. He was at Wills Point, in Yan Zandt county, and purchased a first-class passenger ticket to Grand Sa*59line, another station in said county, about eighteen miles distant. He boarded the train at Wills Point about 12 o’clock at night. His ticket was shortly after taken up by the conductor. The whistle…