Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. v. Ashlock

LOONEY, Justice.

Appellee, Jim Ashloclc, instituted'this suit against appellant, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad ’Company of Texas, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as the result of negligence of. appellant, its agents, servants, and employes.

The grounds of' negligence alleged and submitted to the jury as the proximate cause of appellee’s injuries, were: (1) The practice of mail clerks, in unloading mail at Whitewright, of throwing mail sacks from a moving train onto a street or sidewalk; (2) failure, of the defendant to protest to the .federal…