St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. Powell

By the terms of the "safety appliance" statute applicable (article 6710, Vernon's Statutes), it was unlawful for appellant —

"to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line of railroad within the state of Texas, any locomotive, tender, car or similar vehicle employed in moving intrastate traffic within the said state which is not equipped with couplers, coupling automatically by impact, and which can be coupled and uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles."

As we understand the testimony it was amply sufficient to…