Bonner v. Bryant
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Leon. Tried below before Hon. ¡Norman G-. Kittrell. This is an appeal from a judgment upon a verdict for $3067.20 damages in favor of appellee, injured in voluntarily assisting servants in employ of the appellants. The facts necessary to understand the opinion are given in it.
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages. His petition charges in substance that one Burkett had a contract with appellants to load wood upon their cars at different points along their right of way; that appellee was employed by said Burkett and was his servant; that appellants with their own servants were required to furnish and handle the cars for the transportation of the wood; that at the time of plaintiff’s injury the piles of wood to be loaded were lying at some distance from each other; that appellants, in order that the wood might be loaded more…
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