San Antonio & A. P. Ry. Co. v. Biggs

This suit was instituted by ap-pellee, J. A. Biggs, against the appellant, San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Company, to recover damages for the loss of his left eye, alleged to have been suffered by him by reason of the negligence of appellant. The negligence alleged was: (1) That appellant, without warning to or knowledge on the part of ■ appellee, furnished and required him to use, in his work in repairing certain freight cars, corrugated or coated nails which were latently defective, in that they had been dipped in or coated with some thin, transpar-' ent and not readily perceptible…