Turner v. McKinney
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District 'Court, Tarrant County; R. B. Young, Judge. Action by J. S. McKinney against Avery Turner and another, receivers of the Et. Worth ■& Rio Grande Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
Suit was brought by appellee, J. S. McKinney, against tbe appellants, for damages in tbe sum of $30,000, for alleged injuries received by him while engaged in laying tiling in the bottom of a ditch some 28 inches wide and 13 feet deep, in tbe course of construction in appellant’s roundhouse in its west yards near the city of Et. Worth. The ditch was constructed for the purpose of draining a pit or excavation underneath the repair track in the roundhouse. The ditch was some 60 feet long and extended beyond the roundhouse. Plaintiff alleged negligence upon the part of the defendants in the…
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