El Paso & Southwestern Railway Co. v. Kelley
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from El Paso County. The railway companies appealed from a judgment recovered against-them by Kelley and on its affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Ellis R. Kelley sued the El Paso and Southwestern Railway Company and the El Paso Terminal Railroad Company for damages sustained by reason of the negligence of the defendants while the plaintiff was in their service as fireman on a steam engine which was operating a steam shovel, the defendants being partners. After describing the machinery with particularity, the petition alleges, in substance, that it was the plaintiff’s duty upon the order of the engineer Hooper, who was operating the engine at the time, to oil the machinery, and, that on the 25th day of November,…
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