Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Cobb

Appellee sued appellant for damages for personal injuries resulting from an assault made upon him by an employee of appellant shooting him with a pistol. A jury trial resulted in judgment in. favor of appellee for $26,196; hence this appeal.

Appellee alleged that he was employed as trainmaster of Dodson Shows, and was directing the switching and placing of its cars for loading, in appellant’s switchyard at Temple, Tex., when J. L. Durden, an employee of appellant, while engaged in the discharge of his duties as engine foreman or *324switchman for appellant, and while acang for and on behalf of…