Casstevens v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

While working as a car repairer in the repair shops of 'the Texas & Pacific Railway Company in the city of Port Worth, Albert Casstevens undertook to remove a nut from an iron bolt by using a hammer and chisel, and, while pounding on the chisel with a hard steel hammer which weighed about one and one-half or two pounds, a small piece of steel flew off the hammer and injured one of plain-, tiff’s fingers. After removal of his glove he extracted the sliver from his finger and continued work for some 14 days thereafter, at the termination of which period he was forced to cease work and procure…