Northern Texas Traction Co. v. Jenkins

Appellee Jenkins sued appellant traction company for damages for personal injuries sustained in a colisión between a truck on which he was riding and one of appellant’s street cars. His petition alleged, and the proof showed, that he was employed as a helper on the truck which was being used at the time of the accident to haul material to be used in the construction of the F. & M. National Bank in the city of Fort Worth, Tex.; that on the occasion of his injury he. stepped from behind the wall inclosing the bank building onto appellant’s street railway track, for the purpose of signalling the…