Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Hayes

GRAY, Justice.

Appellee sued appellant for damages for personal injuries under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, § 1, as amended in 1939, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51. At a jury trial ap-pellee recovered a judgment for $35,675.

Appellee was an employee of appellant and while in the process of switching cars in appellant’s Englewood Yards in Houston he fell from a moving railroad car and was injured. He alleged that he had gotten on a gondola car (commonly called a coal car) ; that he took hold of a grabiron to enable him to' ride the car and that there was grease on the grabiron which caused him to…