Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. Runnels

BROWN, Associate Justice.

We copy the following facts found by the Court of Civil Appeals:

“Appellee, who was a woodchopper in the employment of the appellant, and as such was accustomed to traveling upon passes upon freight trains over its road, on the 11th day of July, 1896, at Houston, procured a pass entitling him to travel from that place to Humble. He resided near the railroad at a point about three miles beyond Humble from Houston. There was a wood yard near his home at which such trains sometimes stopped to take on wood. He entered a freight train and traveled upon it to and beyond…