Legal Opinion
Crews v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided February 28, 1941No. 2111PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GRISSOM, Justice.
A. D. Crews sued the Texas & Pacific Railway Company for damages alleged to have been sustained in a fall from defendant’s engine while he was lubricating it in the nighttime in defendant’s roundhouse yards at Baird. Plaintiff alleged he was an assistant hostler and that it was his duty when the engine, from which he fell, came into the yard to take a gallon can of hot oil, climb the side of the engine, with a flashlight in one hand and the oil in the other, and, clinging to the side of the engine, pour the oil into the lubricator. That the place at which he was required to…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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- Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Boldt v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Butler v. FrazeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. BingleTexas Supreme Court · 1897
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Sloan v. Leger Mill Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1942