Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Briggs

JAMES, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by Charles F. Briggs, a brakeman, to recover damages of appellant for injury received while coupling cars on defendant’s line at the town of Schulenburg. The prayer for damages, as it stood when the trial began, was for $41,000; and the nature of the occurrence was, that while plaintiff was engaged in coupling a Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway car with a Morgan car, the former being the moving and the latter the stationary car, the drawhead of the latter rode the drawhead of the former when .they came together, and as plaintiff undertook…