Jacksonville Ice & Electric Co. v. Moses
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Cherokee County. Tried below before James P. Gibson, Esq., Special Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
HODGES, Associate Justice.
The appellees are the widow and minor children of S. H. Moses, who was killed in September, 1909, by coming in contact with one of appellant’s wires charged with a current of electricity. This suit was instituted by them to recover damages sustained on account of his death. The facts, about which there seems to be no controversy, show that the deceased lived with his family in the suburbs of the town of Jacksonville, Cherokee County, and was employed as a boilermaker, or repairer, by the Texas & Hew Orleans Railway Company, which maintained a depot at that place. On…
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