Hines v. Wicks

Three hundred dollars damages for personal injuries were allowed in this case upon substantially this state of facts:

While the appellee, as an employs of the Director General of Railroads, about 8:30 o’clock one night, was drawing from the car towards the baggageroom a truck loaded with trunks — some of which had come on a through train from New Orleans, La., to Houston, Tex. — along one of the cement walks maintained for that purpose by the Director General at the Union Station in Houston, he was injured by the falling of one of the trunks from the truck; the cement walk at the place where…