Missouri Pacific Railway & International & Great Northern Railway v. White

ACKER, Presiding Judge.

Appellee brought this suit to recover damages for personal injury, which caused the permanent loss of the use of his hand, while he was employed by appellants as a brakeman on their freight trains, in which capacity he had served from the 31st day of October to the 24th day of November, 1887, when he received the injury. There was verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $7500. It was alleged, and the plaintiff testified, that the injury was caused by the unusual and hazardous construction of the couplings of certain foreign cars composing a circus train which defendant…