Texas & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Bradford

Stayton, Associate Justice.

The appellee was foreman in charge of a section of appellant’s railway, and had been working in that capae*733ity for about six years before he was injured; was forty-six years old, had been railroading the most of his life, and, from his own statement, understood that business.

He thus states the manner and cause of the injury for which he seeks to recover damages: “On March 5; 1884, the road master passed over my section (66), going west on defendant’s road and ordered me peremptorily to straighten the rail, and told me that if I did not have it straightened by the…