Texas & New Orleans Railway Co. v. Conroy

COLLABD, Judge,

Section A.—Suit by appellee, Dennie Conroy, against appellant, the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company, for damages for injuries received by him, an employe of the railway, at Beaumont, Texas, while coupling a tender and engine to a freight train. The ground of the complaint was, that the coupling apparatus on the tender of the engine had as one of its attachments what is known as the “goose-neck;” that its use was more dangerous than the ordinary coupling apparatus, and was not intended to be used on freight trains; that plaintiff did not know it was there, and did not see it…