Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Padgett

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

In this action the appellee, Alvin Padgett, recovered of the appellants, Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Eailway Company and L. E. Floyd, in the court below, a verdict and judgment in the sum of $5,000.00' damages for personal injuries received by him while in the service of the railroad company, from the explosion of a stick of dynamite alleged to have been left in a bucket of pitch by the negligence of the appellant, Floyd, the railroad company’s foreman in charge of a crew of workmen engaged in the construction of a concrete abutment in…