Riley v. Galveston City Railway Co.

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

— The appellant sued appellee for the recovery of damages for personal injuries received by him while in the service of appellee, and which resulted, as appellant alleged, from the negligence of appellee. The petition averred that plaintiff, while engaged in placing a wire through an insulator on one of the lines of defendant company, was thrown from a stepladder, upon which he was standing, to the ground, and ivas thereby severely injured; that his fall was caused by the negligence of one Payne, who, it was alleged, was a vice-principal of the defendant, in…