Beaumont S. L. & W. Ry. Co. v. Schmidt

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries. At the time of the happening of the circumstances involved here, appellee was in the employ of appellant railway company as telegraph operator and clerk at Huffman, Tex., a station on appellant’s line of railroad. At Huffman appellant maintained a nearby well and water tank, used for supplying its trains with water. The water was pumped into the water tank from the well by means of a kerosene or oil burning engine. At the time appellee received his injuries complained of in this suit, he was operating the water engine pump, as was one of his…