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

JAMES, Chief Justice.

An action for damages for personal injury. The amended petition of Senn alleged that while he was act ing as engineer on one of defendant’s freight trains, and when it reached a point about seven miles west of Uvalde, the boiler of the engine exploded, and he sustained thereby serious and • permanent injury. “That the boiler in its bolts, stays and the various parts by which the boiler was held together, was defective, unsafe and unfit and dangerous, and were too weak to stand the strain which was necessarily placed upon them,” and by reason of such dangerous and unsafe…