Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. McCrummen

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee against the appellant to recover damages for' personal injuries alleged to have been received by him in March, 1909, while employed by the defendant as a fireman in its roundhouse in the city of Amarillo. It was alleged that while in the pursuance of his duty in firing an engine in the roundhouse he undertook in the .usual way to put a piece of wood in the fire box of the engine, but that by reason of a knot or protrusion it did not go in but caught on the fire box and caused the piece of wood to jam and bruise the plaintiff’s hand.…