St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Wilkes
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Smith County; R. W. Simpson, Judge. Action by U. T. Wilkes against the-St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company. Judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Appellee received bodily injury while in the service of appellant as conductor operating a freight train.
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Appeal from District Court, Smith County; R. W. Simpson, Judge. Action by U. T. Wilkes against the-St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company. Judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Appellee received bodily injury while in the service of appellant as conductor operating a freight train. The train, at the time of the injury, was made up, and in the order of an engine and tender, merchandise car, the six cars composing the “wrecking outfit,” a coal hoist, coal car, three box cars, caboose, and box car, making 14 ears besides the tender. The coal hoist was on two trucks and was an old…
1Opinion of the Court
8224 Writ of error granted by Supreme Court. The court charged the jury that: "The law provides that 75 per centum of the cars in trains, such as the one in question, shall be equipped with power or train brakes. Now if you shall find that 75 per centum of the cars in the train at the time of the injury, if any, to plaintiff were not equipped with power or train brakes, and if you find that such fact, if you find it to be a fact, directly and proximately caused or contributed to cause the caboose in which plaintiff was riding to run into the other portion of the train from which it had been…
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