Texas Central Railway Co. v. Hicks

CONTJER, Ci-iiee Justice.

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries received while appellee was employed as a section hand on appel lant’s railway. It was alleged that pursuant to the order of appellant’s foreman in charge of the section where the injury occurred, appellee got off of a moving train for the purpose of extinguishing a fire that was burning on the right of way, and that in doing so, without negligence on his part, he was injured in the particulars set forth in his petition. It was also alleged that appellee was inexperienced and unacquainted with the danger of getting off…