Thompson v. Sinkler

WALKER, Justice.

Sinkler, the plaintiff in this action, was an employee of the several railroad corporations represented on this appeal and as defendants below by the trustee. Plaintiff served as a cook on the car used by an officer .of said railroad corporations in the performance of his duties. This car, with plaintiff on board as cook, was brought into the Union Depot at Houston, apparently by one of the trustee’s corporations, the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Ry. Co., as one of a train of cars, and later that day, with plaintiff again on board and again engaged in performing his duties,…