Texas Central R. R. Co. v. Hutchingson

KEY, Chief Justice.

This is a personal injury suit, which resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $4000, and the defendant has appealed. On the night of Harch 23, 1907, one of appellant’s passenger trains passed the town of Hico; it stopped at that station and the appellee went aboard of it for the purpose of assisting his afflicted sister, who had a ticket and took passage on the train. The train started before appellee disembarked, and, in getting off, he was thrown upon the ground and injured. Appellee charged in his petition that the defendant was guilty of…