Krueger v. Brenham Furniture Manufacturing Co.

GILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellant to recover of appellee damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from the incompetence of a fellow workman negligently employed and kept in service by appellee. Defendant’s pleas in bar were the general denial, contributory negligence, assumed risk, and that the fellow workman of plaintiff was a fellow servant for whose negligence defendant was not liable. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for defendant, from which the plaintiff has appealed.

The defendant was a company engaged in the manufacture of…