Turner v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.

CONNER, Chief Justice.

Appellant instituted this suit in the District Court to recover damages for personal injuries -alleged to have been received by him while in appellee’s employ as a member of one of its bridge gangs under one H. L. Humphrey as appellee’s vice-principal. Appellant alleged that on June 14, 1904, while said gang was working on a bridge about one mile east of Munster in Cooke Count)’, said Humphrey directed and knowingly permitted appellant and two others to lift a heavy, water-soaked pile or bridge timber beneath the bridge, and that while they were lifting said piece of…