Houston Belt & Terminal Ry. Co. v. Rogers

Pursuant to a jury’s verdict on special issues, the appellee, an employee of the Petroleum Iron Works, a corporation, was awarded $7,500 damages against the appellant as for its negligent failure to furnish him, an invitee thereon for the purpose of loading steel by means of a crane located on a “team track” of the railway company in its Houston yards from the ground beside this track onto his employer’s autotrucks, safe premises upon which to so do that work, in that they were both inadequate and in defective condition; the crane having in consequence turned over under his own operation…