San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Lester

BROWN, Associate Justice.

We copy the conclusions of fact filed by the Court of Civil Appeals, as follows:

“Appellee was injured in the sum found by the jury, by jumping from the locomotive of which he was in charge as engineer, which was about to crash into the rear of a freight train standing on the track. The danger was imminent and appellee jumped from the locomotive to save his life. The collision took place between the engine on which appellee was riding, and the caboose of the standing train, through the negligence of appellant in not having a light burning in the cupola of the caboose,…