Southern Pacific Co. v. Godfrey

FLY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for damages by appellee, who alleged that he was a resident of Arizona Territory, and, while employed by appellant, as a brakeman on a freight train, that he was injured through the negligent manner in which a car was loaded with lumber, on account of which negligence the lumber slid forivard, precipitating him to the track, where his right hand was so badly crushed as to require amputation of the fingers and thumb. Appellant answered by a plea of privilege to be sued in Harris County, Texas, which plea was overruled. It then ansAvered by a plea to the…