Gulf & S. I. R. R. v. Williamson

About ten minutes past six o’clock on the night of January 25, 1931, the brakeman riding in the rear coach of appellant’s southbound passenger train heard a noise of the rattling of gravel against the bottom of the coach, which to his experienced ears evidenced something wrong, and he immediately signaled the engineer to stop. The engineer responded at once, and the train was brought to a stop at a point a little more than one-quarter of a mile below the flag" station, called Coats. The train crew made an examination, and found the mangled body of appellees’ decedent entangled in the dynamo…