Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Reasor

TEMPLETON, Associate Justice.

The appellee, J. 0. Reasor, was engaged in working as messenger of the American Express Company and as baggageman of the appellant, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, the work being done on appellant’s trains running between Denison and Sherman. A train on which appellee was at work collided with another train, and he received injuries on account of which he brought suit against appellant and recovered judgment.

It was shown that appellee, by the terms of the contract between appellant and the express company and of his contract with the express…