Henwood v. Moore

HALL, Chief Justice.

This is a personal-injury damage suit, wherein appellee G. E. Moore, plaintiff below, was awarded a judgment for $35,000 against appellant, Berryman Hen-wood, .Trustee, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas, defendant below, for injuries sustained as a result of a collision at night on August 13, 1945, between a train and standing freight cars upon defendant’s main line tracks on the outskirts of Mt. Pleasant. Plaintiff, an employee of defendant, the head brakeman on the moving train who was riding the tender at the time either jumped off just prior to the…