Payne v. Robey

Appellee sued appellant and the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company and Louisiana Western Railway Company for damages sustained by him while in the employ of said defendants as head cook on a dining car engaged in interstate commerce, operated between Lake Charles, La., and El Paso, Tex. Appellee alleged that he was chief chef in a dining car operated in connection with trains running between points in Louisiana and Texas; that on the morning of July 16, 1919, while it was dark, he went into the kitchen of the dining car for the purpose of performing his usual duties, and while so engaged…