Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway Co. v. Perdue

TALBOT, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages resulting to him from personal injuries alleged to have been received through the negligence of appellant. It was alleged, in substance, that, on August 21, 1905, appellee was in the employ of appellant, serving it as a brakeman on one of its mixed trains; that in said train was a caboose which was so negligently constructed as to render same dangerous to the employes working about it. That said caboose was provided with a coupling lever which consisted of an iron rod so bent at one end as to lift a pin attached to…