Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Lynch

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

This was a suit for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while acting as fireman on an engine pulling one of the defendant’s freight trains, resulting in a verdict and judgment for $12,500, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

Conclusions of fact. — Appellee, a fireman on one of appellant’s engines, was injured while shaking the grates of the engine, when suddenly the shaker bar attachments became disconnected from the grates, precipitating him backward through the open space between the engine cab and tender on the ground, resulting…