Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. McAdams

JAMES, Chief Justice.

Action for damages for personal injuries, verdict for plaintiff for $12,000. Plaintiff was head yard clerk in appellant’s yards at El Paso. He alleged that it was a part of his duty to put link bills in the drawheads or couplers of the cars of defendant, and that he was required to see that the link bills were put in the draw-heads of the rear car of freight trains, that in performing this duty on this occasion, he went to the rear end of the rear car of a string of ears on defendant’s track for the purpose of changing the link bills as he had been informed that other…