Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. Higgins

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

—This suit was brought by appellee Higgins to recover damages for personal injuries received by him in jumping from his engine as it was about to run into the rear end of a freight train.

The petition shows that appellee was in the employ of appellant as a locomotive engineer in charge of through extra stock train Ho. 103, with orders to make twenty-five miles an hour; that the regular freight train Ho. 7, with which his engine collided, was running in the same direction, but was behind time several hours; that he had run his train by the orders of defendant's train…