TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. VAN ZANDT

No. 5264.

311 S.W.2d 422 (1958)

TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. R. A. VAN ZANDT, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Denied April 2, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDonald & Shafer, Odessa, Hill D. Hudson, Pecos, for appellant.

Rex Emerson, Odessa, of counsel, W. R. Barnes, John J. Watts, Odessa, for appellee.


WILLIAMS, Justice.

This was a passenger damage suit by which plaintiff below sought damages for alleged injuries occurring to him on or about the 13th day of December, 1952. Plaintiff claimed injuries to his back and chest and was awarded damage in the sum of $27,000 by verdict of the jury, in Ector County, Texas.

Upon the trial of the case, plaintiff testified that, while riding as a paying passenger on appellant...

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