Hines v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Wood County; J. R. Warren, Judge. Suit by Horace Jones against Walker D. Hines, federal Director General of Railroads. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtTalbot, J.
The appellee sued .the appellant, as Director General of Railroads, for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him at Alba, Wood county, Tex., on the 7th day of July, 1919, through the negligence of the servants of the appellant. Appellee alleged, in substance, that he was a drayman, and on July 7, 1919, he was engaged in transferring to the station of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, at Alba, a lot of household goods and loading them into a car standing beside a loading platform of appellant; that he and two other men were moving a large cooking range,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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