Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Whisenhunt

JAMES, Chief Justice.

The action was brought by appellee for damages for the loss of an eye. He alleged he was a machinist’s helper in defendant’s machine shops; that defendant was negligent in supplying him with a piece of brass for use as a punch which he used in driving brass out of a driving-wheel box by means of a hammer; that it was unfit for the purpose; that he had just commenced to drive said brass punch in when a piece flew off of it on account of its being of very friable nature and easily broken, and struck him in his right eye, putting it out; that he did not know at the time that…