H. & T. C. R. R. v. Nichols

Opinion by This suit was instituted July 14, 1873, by the appellee, S. M. Nichols, against the appellant, the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, to recover damages, alleged at $30,500, for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while a passenger on defendant’s train of cars, in an accident which occurred about May 1, 1873, whereby the passenger car in which plaintiff was riding was thrown from the track, and the plaintiff’s collar-bone was broken, and he was otherwise seriously injured; the plaintiff alleging that said injuries were caused by the wanton disregard of its legal…