St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Ford

LEVY, Associate Justice.

By his petition the appellee claimed that while in the service of appellant as head brakeman of its local freight train, and performing his switching duties at the time, he sustained serious personal injuries occurring to him by being run against and upon by a locomotive then being operated by the appellant company on its track at Jester, Texas, alleged to have been directly caused by his foot becoming wedged and fastened between two of the ties in the main track near the switch stand, through the negligence of appellant in having and permitting the said ties at the…