TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILWAY COMPANY v. HART

No. 6395.

350 S.W.2d 227 (1961)

TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Melba HART et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Judgment Made Final and Rehearing Denied October 11, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Barber & Seale, Jasper, for appellees.


STEPHENSON, Justice.

This is a suit for personal injuries brought by appellees Mary Evelyn McCormick and Melba Joy Hart to recover damages from the Texas and New Orleans Railway Company, arising out of an automobile-train collision which occurred at a grade crossing on the Spencer Highway, near LaPorte, Harris County, Texas. Mary McCormick, the driver of the automobile, was nineteen and Melba Hart was seventeen years of age at the time of the collision.

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