Cox v. Rio Grande Valley Telephone Co.

In the course of his employment as a brakeman on the line of the St. Louis, Brownsville •& Mexico Railway, plaintiff in error, Cox, was swept from atop a moving box car by an overhanging telephone wire, which was suspended over and across the railway company’s right of way. As a result of the accident, which occurred near Mercedes, in Hidalgo county, plaintiff in error was seriously injured, and brought suit for damages in one of the district courts of Harris county against said railway company and the Rio Grande Valley Telephone Company.

Subsequently plaintiff in error compromised and settled…