Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Hays

PRESLER, Associate Justice.

This was an action for personal injuries by a passenger and resulted in a verdict and judgment in his favor for seven thousand five hundred dollars, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

J-ust as the train left Wichita Falls it struck an engine standing on the main track at the coal chute, where it was being coaled, with such force as to throw appellee from the seat or arm of the seat occupied by him to the floor of the car, thereby producing, as alleged, a severe internal injury, termed by some of the expert witnesses, “chronic my-This collision was alleged in the…