St. Louis S.W. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Brown

Appellee. sued the appellant to recover damages for personal injuries inflicted upon him by the negligent handling of one of its trains; the allegations being, in effect, that while he, as section foreman, was engaged with a crew of men unloading ties along defendant’s right of way from a train moving slowly along, the train stopped, and then, without warning to him, the engineer caused the train to start with a sudden jerk, and he was thrown violently against the end of a tie, which he was attempting to unload, causing a rupture in the lower part of the stomach, etc., injuring him, rendering…