Texas & N. O. R. v. Goolsbee

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This is a second hearing in an action brought by appellee, Addison Goolsbee, for the recovery of damages for personal in*251juries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the employees of appellant, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, in the operation of a train, which caused him to jump from the engine in which he was employed as a fireman, because of apprehension on his part of a collision between that train and the train operated by appellant.

In its answer, appellant alleged that ap-pellee’s injury was the result of a new and independent cause which was due…