Hines v. Collins

W. M. Collins, appellee, brought this suit against the Panhandle & Santa Eé Railroad Company, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him. It was alleged and proven that the plaintiff was injured by the derailment of a motorcar, on which he and other laborers were riding while in the discharge of their duties, as section hands, working on defendant’s road. It was alleged that the tools for use by the men in such work were carried in the bed of said motorcar; that no end gate, which might prevent the tools from falling out of the car, was furnished; that on account of this fact,…