Texas Supreme Court February 18, 1890, No. 2841 (Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Anderson)

HENRY, Associate Justice.

The petition charges that heretofore, to-wit, on the 29th day of August, A. D. 1888, and prior and subsequent thereto, defendant, as a common carrier of freight and passengers, was engaged in running and operating coaches, passenger and freight trains, drawn by locomotives, operated and propelled by steam, on and along Avenue A, in the city and county of Galveston, and