Rapid Transit Railway Co. v. Edwards

TALBOT, Associate Justice.

This is an action for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by appellee while serving the appellant in the capacity of a street car conductor. The defendant railway company answered by general and special exceptions to plaintiff’s petition, a general denial and pleas of contributory negligence and assumed risk. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $1,400 this appeal is prosecuted.

Conclusions of fact.—Appellee had been in the employ of appellant about two months, and about eleven o’clock at night on the 20th of August, 1906, while…