St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. George

TARLTON, Judge,

Section B.—This is an appeal from a judgment rendered by the District Court of Lamar County, awarding damages in the sum of $4800 for personal injuries found by a jury to have been inflicted upon appellee, on account of the negligence of appellant.

The injuries were received by appellee on the morning of April 28, 1888, while employed as a brakeman on one of appellant’s freight trains; and they were caused by a fall of this freight train through one of appellant’s bridges on its line of road.

It will be observed, in the course of this opinion, that appellant lays much stress upon…