Gulf, C. S. F. R. Co. v. Spivey

Spivey sued the railroad company for damages arising from a double hernia suffered by him in the course of his employment as "car man" in its shops at Temple, Tex. From a judgment in his favor for $4,500, based upon jury answers to special issues, the railroad company has appealed.

Briefly stated, the appellee's duties required him, when a car with injured wheels came in, to jack up the end of the box car, remove the wheels needing repair, roll them out from under the car, then across one or more tracks onto what was termed the "bad order" tracks, and replace them with good wheels. A set of…