Huckabay v. Hughes Tool Co.

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal involves only the question of whether or not appellant, in the allegations of his trial-petition, stated a good" cause-of-action against his employer, the appellee, who at all times was a subscriber under the Employer’s Liability Law, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq., for damages resulting from the appellee’s violation of a claiméd statutory duty toward appellant under R.S. Article 5174, or — independently of that statute — from certain other specifically alleged acts of negligence upon its part toward him, under the common law.

That petition thus stated how…