Texarkana & Ft. S. Ry. Co. v. La Velle

(after stating the facts as above). The facts proven, substantially stated above, are to be considered in passing upon the point made on appeal that the evidence fails to show negligence as pleaded by appellee. It is aflarmatively shown that five of the six skid poles used on the skidway were pushed back on the skidway with “three or four logs laying across the ends,” and that the remaining skid poles projected beyond the end of the nearby skidway and reached so close to the spur track as to injure the foot of 'the appellee, a switchman, while he was riding on a passing flat.car loaded with…