Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Company v. Arnold

MARTIN, Justice.

This suit was brought under the provisions of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, Title 45, § 51, U.S.Code Annotated. The trial of the cause was conducted under the provisions of the federal law expressed in the act and decisions thereunder and it is recognized that the appeal must be determined by the same law. Bailey v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc., 319 U.S. 350, 63 S.Ct. 1062, 87 L.Ed. 1444; Strickland Transp. Co., Inc., v. Johnston, Tex.Civ. App., 238 S.W.2d 717.

Appellee, H. T. Arnold, while employed as a car inspector by the appellant, Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway…