Goodson v. Houston T. C. R. Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from. District Court, Burleson County; Ed. R. Sinks, Judge. Action by Charles A. Goodson against the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHarper, C. J.
Appellant sued the appel-lee in the district court of Burleson county to recover damages on account of personal injuries alleged to have been received by him while in the employ of appellee as a member of a bridge gang in repairing a bridge on its main line near Mexia, Tex.; the injuries complained of being double hernia, alleged to have been sustained by reason of falling from a- scaffold constructed under the bridge by his fellow workmen, and from which he fell by reason of the unsafe condition of the scaffold, made so through the negligence of his fellow workmen, whose duty it was to…
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