Legal Opinion
Merchants and Planters Oil Co. v. Burns
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 1, 1903No. 1223PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Harris County. Maggie Burns sued the oil company for the death of her husband, and recovered a judgment which was affirmed on appeal. The company then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
We copy the following findings of fact filed by the Court of Civil Appeals:
“The deceased (Ben Burns) was in the employment of the defendant oil company in the operation of its mill as a roustabout. On the morning of October 22, 1898, he and other employes of the defendant were at work upon a platform at the end of one of defendant’s seed houses repairing a two-inch wire cable stretched between that and a platform to another seed house connecting the machinery in the two and extending over three railroad switch tracks running between the seed houses and used by the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. BighamTexas Supreme Court · 1896
- Lee v. International & Great Northern Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1896
- City of Galveston v. BarbourTexas Supreme Court · 1884
- Berrigan v. . New York, Lake Erie and Western Rd. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. WorthyTexas Supreme Court · 1895
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Sanchez v. SchindlerTexas Supreme Court · 1983
- Evans v. Oregon Short Line RailroadUtah Supreme Court · 1910
- Estate of Clifton v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co., Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1985
- San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. SpencerCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1909
- Dawson v. KingCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1914
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