Texas & Pacific R'y Co. v. Kane

Opinion by

Willson, J.. § 18. Pleading; petition in action for damages by employee of railroad ■ company for injuries sustained L-y reason of defective hand-car. This suit was instituted by appellee, to recover of appellant $500 damages for injuries sustained by being run over by a hand-car. He alleged in his petition, in substance, that he was in the employment of appellant, as foreman on a section of its road; that appellant by the contract of employment, *25undertook to furnish him with a safe, good and sufficient hand-car, for him to travel on, from one part to another of said section, to…