Adkins v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

M-cDONALD, Chief Justice.

On September 15, 1947, appellant Adkins was employed as a switchman ’by appellee. The claim he presents in this suit is that on said date, as a locomotive operated by appellee was being started, the driving wheels were negligently allowed to slip, and that the wheels caused a- piece of steel to be thrown into appellant’s left eye. The case was submitted to the jury on nine special issues. The jury found that the wheels slipped, but that the slipping of the wheels was not the result of any negligence on appellee’s part. No other ground of negligence was submitted to…