St. Louis, B. & M. Ry. Co. v. Vernon

T. H. Vernon brought this suit against the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Company, a corporation operating a railroad, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him while in the employment of defendant as locomotive engineer on account of a collision of the freight train he was engaged in operating with another freight train standing on defendant’s main track at or near its station of Brazoria. Plaintiff alleged that his injuries were a proximate result of negligence of the defendant’s agents or servants in charge of the standing train (1) in having that train on the main…