Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railway Co. v. Hodnett

This case involves the question whether the effect of the provision in article 6649, Revised Statutes of 1911 (section 2 of the Act of 1909 relating to the liability of railroad companies to their employees), that in suits against a common carrier or railroad company on account of personal injuries to an employee, the contributory negligence of such employee shall work only a diminution of his damages, is to render the defense of assumed risk under article 6645 (section 1 of the Act of 1905) no longer available as a bar to the recovery.

The question arises upon the following charge of the…