Texas Mexican Railway Co. v. Douglass
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Aransas. Tried below before the Hon. H. Clay Pleasants. - The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. There was a verdict for plaintiff for eleven thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.
1Opinion of the Court
Maltbie, Presiding Judge.
On the first day of December, 1881, the appellee, Malcom G. Douglass, was and had been for about five weeks an employe of the appellant, the Texas Mexican Railway Company, his duties being to do whatever was required of him .around its shops and yards, at Corpus Christi. That day he received a personal injury, while in the performance of his duties, under these circumstances: One Sutcliffe appeared at the yards of appellant, for the first time, on that morning, and was seen by appellee giving orders to the hands in the shop. Soon afterwards he ordered appellee to…
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