Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Hargrave

Appellee, C. E. Hargrave, instituted this suit in the district court of El Paso county against appellant, the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fé Railway Company, for damages for personal injury sustained by him by reason of the loss of the sight of his right eye while in the service of the company as a brakeman, and while engaged in the handling for it of interstate commerce. The case was tried before a jury on two allegations of negligence, the first alleging that he gave to the engineer a signal which required an ordinary stop of the train, but that the engineer, instead of making an ordinary stop,…