Ely v. San Antonio & A. P. Ry. Co.
Decision Date | 11 March 1897 |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Parties | ELY v. SAN ANTONIO & A. P. RY. CO.<SMALL><SUP>1</SUP></SMALL> |
Appeal from district court, De Witt county; S. F. Grimes, Judge.
Action by G. E. Ely against the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Company Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Price & Green and Rud Kleberg, for appellant. Proctors, for appellee.
Appellant was in the service of the appellee as car coupler in its yard in the town of Yoakum, and this suit was brought to recover damages for personal injuries received by appellant while in the discharge of his duties, through an alleged negligence of his employer. The defendant demurred generally and specially to the petition, and all of the demurrers were sustained; and, plaintiff declining to amend his petition, his suit was dismissed, and from that judgment he appealed to this court.
The substance of the petition is thus given by appellant in his statement under his seventh and eighth assignments of error: In plaintiff's original petition he complains of appellee, and represents that he resides in the county of Lavaca and state of Texas, and that ...
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