Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Hynes

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellee instituted this suit to recover damages incurred by him through personal injuries inflicted by appellant. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee for $18,000.

We find as facts that appellee was in the employment of appellant, and while in discharge of his duties as night watchman in the yards of appellant in San Antonio, on the night of May 13, 1898, he was struck by a car that had been negligently thrown by a flying switch on a repair track,, and received injuries which resulted in the loss of a leg below the knee,, and in the…