Barnhart v. Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Solan Qounty. Barnhart sued the railway company and obtained judgment. On defendant’s appeal this was reversed and the cause remanded. Barnhart obtained writ of error on the conflict of the rulings with decisions of other Courts of Civil Appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Yantis
The plaintiff in error, David Barnhart, recovered a judgment in the District Court of Bolán County, Texas, for personal injuries received by him while working as a brakeman for the defendant in error in its yards at Sweetwater, Texas. At the particular time of the injury which was received by him he was descending a ladder on the side of a box car, and while doing so.he came in contact with an iron standpipe several inches in diameter which had been constructed by the defendant in. error near the track on which the plaintiff in error was riding. The injury resulted in the amputation of'his…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. HarrisTexas Supreme Court · 1910
- Cowen v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1904
- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. WorcesterCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1907
- Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. AnglinTexas Supreme Court · 1905
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