Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Wisenor

Gaines, Associate Justice.

Appellee was a brakeman employed on appellant’s road from Texarkana to Fort Worth. At the time the accident occurred, of which he complains in his petition, he had been employed on the company’s freight trains for several months. He was a head brakeman and as such his position while on duty was on the front of the train near the engine. At the time above referred to, he left Texarkana at 6 o’clock p. m. on a train going west. The engineer being a new man on the road, the conductor went forward to the engine to show him the grades and curves, and placed appellant in…