Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Maples

Appellee recovered verdict and judgment for $5,500 against appellant for damages for personal injuries received while in the employ of appellant and as a result of its alleged negligence, and from which judgment this appeal is taken.

The complaint alleges that appellee was engaged by appellant, with other “section hands,” to assist in extinguishing a fire which was burning cotton stored upon appellant’s platform in the town of Abbott, and that in doing so he got upon a “flat” car containing tanks of water, at the command of his foreman, in order to pass buckets of water to other employes of…