Texas & N. O. R. v. Sarver

BOND, Chief Justice.

Clifford Sarver filed suit against Texas & New Orleans Railroad Compapy to recover damages for alleged personal injury which he claims to have suffered while in the employ of the railroad company.

At the time of the alleged injury, appellant was engage'd in interstate commerce, and had in its employ some 30 or 40 men engaged in relaying rails over a distance of about 6½ miles between Sherman and Deni-son, removing 80-pound rails and replacing them with 90-pound rails. Appellee was employed in the work, and, at the time of his injury, was operating a bolting machine. The…