Ricker, Lee & Co. v. Shoemaker

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This action was brought by the appellee to recover of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Bail way Company, or of Bicker, Lee & Co., the appellants, damages for personal injuries. The petition alleges that the plaintiff was employed by the railway company in constructing a trestle on an extension of its line in Dallas County; that he was working under the immediate orders of one Greenfield, Avho was a representative of the company with power to employ and discharge hands, and that while he was so employed, and while he was upon a pile-driver used in constructing the work,…