Texas Electric Ry. v. Jones

This is the third appeal of this cause. See 210 S. W. 749, 231 S. W. 823, and (Tex. Com. App.) 243 S. W. 980. Appellee in substance alleged that, while working for appellant as a section hand under one Gibson as foreman, said foreman ordered him and other employees to push a motor car along the track for the purpose of causing the gasoline to ignite and start the engine to propel it; that after the engine started it was then his duty to jump onto said car; that the motor car had no handholds on same, and when he attempted to jump on the car the said foreman, who was operating and controlling…