Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Pennell

HEAD, Associate Justice.

Appellee was plaintiff in the court below, and received the injuries for which he recovered damages on the 14th of January, 1890, while he was engaged in loading a car of lumber in the yards of appellant for his employer. While he was thus engaged, appellant negligently allowed other cars to come down on the track on which the car he was loading was standing and run against the same, causing a stick of lumber to fall on his leg. The judgment in the court below was for $600, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

This case was submitted to us at a former day of this term…