Wichita Falls & S. R. v. Lindley

SPEER, Justice.

This is an appeal by appellant, Wichita Falls & Southern Railroad Company, from an adverse judgment in which D. L. Lind-ley, appellee, recovered for damages alleged to have been sustained by him while working as a section hand on the appellant’s tracks.

Appellee’s pleadings disclose that he had been employed by appellant for some months to perform the labor of a section hand on a ten-mile section of the company’s tracks; that appellant is a Texas corporation and owns trackage exclusively inside the state and none in any other state. That on about May 2, 1938, appellant decreased…