Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Freeman

Appellee sued appellant to recover damages for personal injuries and alleged: That appellee was employed as one of a section crew. That while so employed he was ordered by the foreman to remove from the track, with the assistance of another em-ployé, a certain motor car that a passenger train might pass. It was necessary that the work be hastily performed to avoid a collision with the passenger train in order to prevent danger to life and property, and, while plaintiff and the other employé were, in obedience to the foreman’s orders, hurriedly engaged in removing said motor car, the said…