International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Davis

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This action was brought by the appellee to recover from appellant damages sustained by him by reason of appellant’s negligent failure to have a car properly heated, upon which the appellee was traveling in the employment of the Hnited States government as its postal clerk.

As his cause of action, the appellee, among other things, alleged that on September 38, 1896, he was a duly commissioned and regularly acting Hnited States postal clerk or route agent, employed by the Hnited States government, and by it assigned to the duty of accompanying mails carried upon the cars…