E. L. Martin, Inc. v. Kyser

NEALON, Chief Justice.

A. C. Kyser, appellee, recovered judgment for $35,000 against E. L. Martin, Inc., a corporation, on account of personal injuries sustained by him in August, 1934, on a construction job in Harris county. Plaintiff was not an employee of the defendant, but was a graduate engineer then working as a concrete inspector for the State Highway Department. At the time of his injury he was inspecting the pouring of a large quantity of concrete under a railroad trestle or bridge being constructed by the defendant to form an underpass so that the highway might pass under the tracks…