International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Turner
Court of Appeals of Texas
Error from Leon. Tried below before Hon. Norman G-. Kittrell. The opinion states the case, except the language of the charge complained of, which is found in the first assignment of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
This is an action by the widow and children' of Lee Turner to recover damages resulting from his death, alleged to have been caused by negligence of defendant while said Turner was in its service.
The negligence charged against the defendant consisted in a failure to furnish a fireman upon a switch engine in the yard at Willis, where Turner was killed, and to keep in proper repair the frog of a switch in which Turner’s foot was caught while attempting to uncouple cars.
Turner was master of defendant’s yard at Willis, and had been for about two years prior to his…
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