Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. McCullough

RAINEY, Associate Justice.

—Appellee, plaintiff below, instituted this suit to recover of defendant damages for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon him by the negligence of defendant’s employes.

Yhe facts are, that on the 16th day of August, 1897, plaintiff was engaged in the railway mail service, and at the time of his injury was in a mail car in defendant’s yard in Houston, distributing mail. The employes were making up the train preparatory to pulling out. In making a coupling the engine drove a ear against the mail car in which plaintiff was at work with such force as to…