Silver v. Navarette

CLAYTON, Justice.

This is a personal injury suit in which the appellee recovered a judgment against the appellant for injuries received by the former through what he alleged was negligence on the part of the latter’s employee.

Appellant was engaged in the business of buying and selling scrap metal, and maintained a yard in El Paso, Texas in which the metal purchased was stacked up and stored. He employed a crane operator by the name of Reyner Leyva. This employee operated a traveling crane with about a fifty-foot boom, from the end of which an electro-magnet was suspended by means of a steel…