Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Garven

This is a suit for damages, arising from personal injuries, instituted by appellee. One of the grounds of negligence was that the engine was not equipped with a "fusible plug," an appliance placed in the crown sheet of the boilers of locomotives "to the end that, should the water in the boiler, for any cause, get lower than the crown sheet, such fusible plug will melt, the water from the boiler will put out the fire, and the strain upon the boiler be relieved, and thereby any danger of an explosion averted; that an engine properly equipped with such fusible plug can not explode." Another…