Texas & New Orleans R. v. Goolsbee

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by appellee, Addison Goolsbee, for the recovery of damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as a result of the negligence of the employees of appellant, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, in the operation of its trains which was alleged to have caused him to jump from the engine of the train on which he was engaged as a fireman because of his apprehension of a collision between that train and another train which he had neither seen nor heard.

Appellant answered by general denial and by a plea that the -matters…