Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; K. B. Minor, Judge. Action by Sidney E. Brown against the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Bail-way Company. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPly, C. J.
This is a suit for damages instituted by appellee against appellant, alleged to have accrued by reáson of the negligence of appellant in failing to furnish a sufficient number of men to lift a máin crank pin off a truck to a drill press, and which ap-pellee had been ordered by his foreman to lift. Appellant alleged that appellee assumed the risk of lifting the pin, the size and weight of which was apparent to him. The cause was tried by jury and resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee in the sum of $11,500.
The evidence shows that appellee, a man 33 years of age, was what is…
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