Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n v. Texas Compress Co.

GANNON, Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff in a personal injury suit from an instructed verdict against him. A subrogated workmen’s compensation carrier is also appellant.

Complaining that a box car from which he was preparing to unload compressed’ bales of cotton at destination had been so negligently loaded by the defendant shipper, Texas Compress Company, that a loose bale unexpectedly fell on and seriously injured him just after he had opened the door to the car, plaintiff sought judgment for his' damages resulting from the accident.

Viewed most favorably from the standpoint of…