Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway Co. v. Jackson

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellee, while at work for appellant coaling cars at Bridgeport, Texas, was thrown to the ground from the coal chute by a rope that had been tied across the walk or gangway between the bins, receiving the injuries for which he recovered a verdict and judgment for two thousand dollars, from which this appeal is prosecuted. The accident occurred at night. Davis and West, his fellow servants, when they began work that night, found that the latch to bin No. 4 had been broken, and tied up the door with a rope, bringing it diagonally across the pathway between bins 3…