C. Flanagan & Sons, Inc. v. Carken

O’QUINN,- J.

Appellee brought this suit in the district court of Jefferson county, Tex., against appellant, alleging that he was an employee of appellant, who was a contracting stevedore, and that, while working as a longshoreman for appellant on board of and helping to load cargo on the steamship West Segovia, then and there'docked in navigable waters at Port Arthur, Tex., he was injured in the course of his said employment, which injury resulted in hernia, necessitating an operation and the loss of several months’ time from his work. 1-Ie further alleged that, as a result of his injury, he…