Court Opinion

ID: 9834002
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:12:53.392343+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:10.531352
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On Motion for Rehearing.
Upon request of appellants contained in their motion for rehearing, we make the following findings of fact in addition to those contained in our opinion heretofore filed in this cause.
Mrs. Eleck testified:
“I told him (the auditor), T am sick, and don’t bother mo any more.’ Seven years prior to this I was. operated on in Dallas, and I have not been in good health for several years. I was again operated on eight months prior to this. I was nervous, could not sleep well at night, and was in bad condition physically. * * * It was the first time I had been able ,to travel for several years. The conduct of the auditor and conductor caused me great humiliation, and I was virtually prostrated for months afterwards. I have never recovered from it.”
As to this shock upon her mental and physical condition and as to her health being bad at the time, the testimony of Dr. Dunn in •every respect corroborates her statements, and it shows that he performed the second operation, and that she had been a sick woman from that day up to the time she was ejected from the car, and for many weeks thereafter.
Oampbell testified:
“Mrs. Fleck was ejected four car lengths, 80 feet each, from the waiting room. I did not assist her and her children to the waiting room.”
Defendant’s rules read as follows:
“Aged, infirm, crippled, intoxicated, feeble-minded, and sick persons and women and children shall be put off at a station, which is then open, and there placed in the custody and charge of the station agent to prevent their suffering from .exposure or accident.”
Mrs. Fleck further testified;
“I was then very nervous. I was suffering both mental pain and anguish. I could not keep from crying. I picked up my two grips, .and with my two children, while crying, shivering and shaking, started to the defendant’s depot. It was a hot summer day, and the grips were heavy, and I had to walk and carry my -grips with the children following. I saw a policeman, and another gentleman, and approached them. I asked them to intercede for me with the conductor; they told me they could do nothing with him; then one of the gentlemen volunteered to let me have the money and carried me to the interurban station.”
[9] The foregoing testimony which is copied from appellant’s testimony is undisputed. The undisputed evidence further shows, however, that the train was stopped, and Mrs. Fleck ejected at the place at said station where the train usually stopped and passengers disembarked. Appellants insist that the facts shown by this testimony required the court to submit to the jury the question of whether “the defendant’s servants rendered the plaintiff, Mrs. Fleck, and her children such assistance and accommodation as was required by defendant’s rules and as the circumstances of the case demanded,” and that the failure to submit such issue was material error.
We cannot agree in this contention and do not deem it necessary to add anything to what is said upon this subject in our opinion heretofore filed herein. We have duly considered the motion for rehearing, and find nothing to justify a change in the conclusions expressed in our former opinion. The motion is overruled.
Overruled.