Texas & N. O. R. v. Pool

TIREY, Justice.

This is a negligence case brought under Federal Employers’ Liability Act, § 1, as amended, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51.

Appellee, an employee of appellant for more than 31 years, recovered a jury verdict in the court below for the sum of $57,971. He was a railroad engineer at the time he received his injuries and was engaged in his regular line of duty of readying his engine for a trip to Fort Worth, and while so doing he crossed the track in the rear of his engine and slipped on a piece of grease on a railroad tie and fell and sustained injuries. For specific acts of negligence he alleged…