Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Smith

This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages of appellant for injury to his eyes by reason of creosote splashing therein while unloading ties that had been saturated therewith. Plaintiff’s allegations, in effect, were: That he was an employé of appellant, engaged at the time in unloading creosoted ties from a ear at Celeste, Tex. That said ties had been treated with a preparation called creosote, the ingredients of which were to plaintiff unknown, but which was poisonous and dangerous to the eyes; the dangerous character thereof being unknown to plaintiff. That the defendant had…