Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Presley

The opinion of Grissom, J. herewith adopted, follows:

In March, 1937, plaintiff, J. D. Presley, while employed in the Bridge & Builders Department as a section hand for the defendant, Texas & Pacific Railway Company, fell from a house he was repairing for defendant and was injured. He had been working for the Railway Company about eight months at the time of his injury. For several days prior to plaintiff’s injury, the section crew, including plaintiff, had been repairing the inside of a section house. The night before plaintiff was injured there was a heavy rain in the vicinity of the section…