Fort Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. v. Mills

STOKES, Justice.

This case was instituted by appellee, W. A. Mills, to recover damages for personal injuries to his wife which he alleged she received in a fall from the steps of a platform attached to appellant’s shipping pens at Magic City in Wheeler County. Appellee was an employee of appellant in the capacity of section foreman and, appellant having no section house or regular established quarters on the section for use of the foreman and his family and the section hands, furnished to appellee two outfit cars which consisted of ordinary box cars that had been remodeled and equipped for…