TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD COMPANY v. FLOWERS

No. 6344.

336 S.W.2d 907 (1960)

TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Glenn W. FLOWERS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith, Mehaffy, McNicholas & Weber, Beaumont, for appellant.

Harold Peterson, Beaumont, Jacobs, Davis & Schmidt, Houston, for appellee.


McNEILL, Justice.

This is a suit for damages which was instituted in the district court of Jefferson County by appellee against appellant because of alleged injuries sustained by him as a result of being struck and run over by a string of freight cars at a street crossing in the City of Beaumont. As a result of the trial before a jury, judgment in the sum of $170,802.20 was rendered in favor of appellee, hence this appeal.

Appellee, who had just left a house...

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