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

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued appellant for damages, alleging that he was an employe of appellant, working as a switchman, in the yards at San Antonio, Texas, and that while he was on one of three cars that were to be carried from one part of the yards to another, appellant, in attaching the switch engine to said cars threw such locomotive with such violence against said cars as to hurl appellee from the car on which he was riding, to the next car, with such force, as to permanently injure him. Appellant answered by general demurrer, general denial and plea of contributory negligence.…