Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. Berling

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment rendered for appellee against appellant, for $2500 damages for injuries to his person, received by appellee, as averred by him, through the negligence of the appellant’s servants. The petition averred that the plaintiff was in the employment of the appellant, and that, while so employed, he was ordered by the foreman, a servant of appellant, and under whose orders plaintiff was working, to cut a trench from a large telegraph pole standing on the appellant’s right of way; and that, while engaged in cutting said trench,…