Texarkana & Fort Smith Railway Co. v. Toliver

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee against the appellant to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by appellant’s negligence. Defendant’s answer contains a general denial and special pleas of contributory negligence and assumed risk. The trial in the court below by a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $19,500.

Plaintiff was injured on the 39th day of March, 1902, while in the discharge of his duties as foreman of defendant’s switching crew in its yards in the city of Beaumont. There were several…