Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Harper

ELY, Associate Justice.

This is a siiit instituted by appellee to recover damages arising from personal injuries received through the negligence of appellant. The cause was tried by jury and.resulted in a verdict and -judgment for appellee in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. The evidence shows that appellee was a rear brakeman on a freight train of appellant, and in October, 1907, when the train was going on a side’ track at Marathon, a station on- appellant’s line of railway, appellee was standing on the front platform of the caboose in performance of his duties, and the train was…