Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Dooley

RICE, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him in a rear-end collision between the passenger train upon which he was working at the time as a brakeman, and one of appellant’s freight trains, at Belton Junction on January 20, 1905, and for which he recovered judgment in the sum of $6000.

It is conceded on the part of appellant that the company was at fault for the collision, and the only question urged by it, both here and in the court below, to defeat a recovery was that appellee was not in fact injured…