International & Great Northern Railroad v. Owens

JAMES, Chief Justice.

— Appellee Owens sued for damages for personal injuries which he alleged he received while in the service of the railway company as a switchman in the yards in San Antonio. He alleged that his duties at the time were to aid in switching trains and cars, which included riding on trains and cars being switched, and give signals to the engineers; that on this occasion, while on a box car at the rear end of a train being switched, a number of loose or detached cars in motion ran into the rear of the train upon which he was working, and knocked him off the car, seriously…