Emmons v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

HALL, Justice.

This suit was brought by -appellant against appellee for damages resulting from the loss of his left eye, proximately caused by the alleged negligence of appel-lee. Appellant was an employee of ap-pellee in the capacity of head brakeman on one of its freight trains, and on the occasion of the alleged injury was riding on the engine where his duty called him. Appellant alleged that while he was crossing from the left to the right side of the engine in the performance of his duty, hot sand or other foreign matter was blown from the firebox of said engine, striking him in the left…