Austin & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Beatty

Acker, Presiding Judge.—

Joseph Beatty was employed by appellant to place numbers upon the bridges on its road between Austin and Burnet. A special train, consisting of a locomotive, several fiat cars, and a passenger coach attached to the rear end, went out from Austin under the personal control of Leitnaker, appellant’s general superintendent, carrying appellee and other employes. The train was stopped about sixty or eighty yards from bridge eight, and Leitnaker directed appellee to go forward to the bridge and nail the board upon which the bridge number was painted on the end of the cap of…