Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Co. v. Doty

DATTIMORE, Justice.

The deceased, a man about 60 years of age, •was an employee of appellant engaged in the placing of supports for appellant’s tracks in order -that a highway pass under said tracks might be built. Appellant’s part in said undertaking consisted in driving wooden piles in the ground and placing thereon a “cap” upon which wooden “stringers” parallel to the tracks were placed, and upon which stringers the cross-ties rested, which latter supported the rails. The railroad track was then being, and had been for many years, used by appellant in interstate transportation. Appellant…