Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Sims

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is a FELA case in which plaintiff sought recovery for alleged personal injuries sustained while working in defendant railroad’s shops, in Settegast Yards, Houston, Texas, from October 1954 to January 1957. Plaintiff was a pipefitter who worked on engines in the roundhouse. He alleged that he suffered injuries as a result of exposure to noxious fumes and gases given off by the various engines and locomotives in such shops.

Trial was to a jury which, in answer to special issues, found:

1) Between October 1954 and January 1957, while plaintiff was working in Sette-gast…