Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Hawley

TALBOT, Associate Justice.

— On April 30, 1908, appellee was a brakeman on one of appellant’s freight trains between Dallas, Texas, and Denton, Texas, when he was caused to fall from one of the cars incorporated in the train by the giving way of an insecurely fastened hand-hold on said car. To recover for serious injuries sustained in the fall he brought this suit, and upon trial before a jury a verdict and judgment was rendered in his favor for the sum of $14,583, from which appellant has perfected an appeal to this court.

Plaintiff alleged, in substance, so far as is necessary to state, that…