Ray v. Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co.

CONNER, Chief Justice.

Appellant and others in the service of the appellee Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Company were engaged in transferring a large iron boiler from a pump house to an engine house situated in the yards of the company named, in Amarillo, Texas, across a switch track extending alongside said engine house. As a roadway for the rollers upon which said boiler was moved, heavy planks were used. After crossing the' switch track, which was at a right angle, one of these planks had been left on or near the rail nearest the engine house in such manner or position as that it was…