Texas & New Orleans Railway Co. v. Bingham
Texas & New Orleans Railway Company v. Jane Bingham
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Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
Appellee was a passenger upon one of the appellant’s trains from Beaumont to Liberty. When the latter *279 place was reached the train did not come to a stop, but slackened its •speed so that two male passengers safely alighted in appellee’s presence. Appellee, when the name of the station was announced, had gone upon the platform of the car, and was standing there waiting for the cars to stop. Seeing that they were not stopping, she asked an employe of appellant, whom she supposed to be the conductor, if she should jump off. He directed her to wait until the train got opposite the depot. The train ■continued to move on, increasing its speed, and finally appellant’s servant told her she would have to jump off, which she did, receiving the injuries for which she seeks compensation in this suit.
There is a conflict of evidence upon all of the material facts just stated, but the issues having been submitted to a jury by a charge of which no complaint is made, and the jury having found in appellee’s favor, we must conclude that all the facts testified to by witnesses which are necessary to sustain the verdict are established. In view of these facts, we conclude that appellant was guilty of negligence in not stopping its train at the station, and that appellee was not, under the circumstances testified to by her and her witnesses, guilty of negligence in trying to alight, so as to preclude her from recovering.
We therefore conclude as matter of law, that appellant is liable in damages for this breach of its contract of carriage. The amount found by the jury is not claimed to be excessive, and is warranted by the evidence.
The point made in appellant’s fifth assignment of error, that the evidence fails to show that the train on which she was a passenger, and the servants of whose negligence she complains, were those of appellant, was not raised in the motion for a new trial in the court below, and can not therefore be considered here.
Affirmed.
Delivered February 9, 1893.
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