San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Stevens

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages for alleged injuries inflicted by the negligence of the latter. The grounds of negligence alleged are that while plaintiff, as a member of the appellant’s bridge gang, was being transported on a hand car over its road under the direction and control of Don Gaberiseh, the “scratch-boss,” or foreman of the bridge gang, Gaberiseh negligently permitted the hand car to run upon the railroad track in close proximity to a passenger train running in the same direction; was negligent in ordering and…