Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Houston

Appeal from a judgment upon a special issue verdict in favor of appellee in a suit for compensatory damages for the alleged negli*773gent death, of appellee’s husband, PMllip Houston, who was an employee of appellant.

The facts in broad outline follow:

September 11, 1928, Phillip Houston, while a member of a section gang engaged in repairing appellant’s railway line near the town of Lyons, in Burleson county, was struck on the right shoulder by a double coil spring, weighing about 29 pounds, which had been projected from a passing freight train for a distance of some fifteen feet from the track…