Davis v. Bowie

This appeal is from a judgment against the appellant for $4,000 as damages for personal injuries. The appellee, Bowie, was an employee of the appellant at Longview, Tex. In March, 1919, he and three other fellow employees were engaged in moving a truck loaded with an air pump, which weighed about 1,200 pounds. They were conveying the air pump from the roundhouse to the passenger station. The railway tracks at that point run practically east and west. Both the roundhouse and the station are situated on the north side of the tracks, and only a short distance apart. The evidence shows that the…