Texas & Pac. Ry. Co. v. Roberts

MCDONALD, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff, G. A. Roberts, the appellee here, was employed as a switchman on defendant’s railroad. On the occasion in question he was sent to assist in the movement of eight or ten cars then standing in defendant’s yards in the City of Fort Worth. One of the cars was an empty refrigerator car, which belonged to Armour & Co. At each corner of said car was an ice well. The opening’ of the well was on top of the car. For each of such openings there were two covers. The inside cover, referred to as a “plug”, was approximately 30 by 36 inches in size, and about four inches…