Hoover v. Tex. & P. R'y Co.

Citations

• 61 Tex. 503
• 1884 Tex. LEXIS 133

Syllabus

<p>1. Contributory negligence — Damages.—When one enters upon a railway track under circumstances which make it obviously an act of imminent danger on account of the rapid approach of an engine and tender, and receives hurt therefrom, he cannot, on account of his own negligence, recover damages ; and this though the injury was inflicted in an incorporated city by an engine running backward with tender in front, without ringing the bell or sounding the whistle, and at a rate of speed forbidden by the ordinances of the city.</p>