Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Thompson

HENRY, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought this suit to recover damages for personal injuries received by him while employed as an engineer by the defendant.

Plaintiff’s petition charges that while he was engaged in running an engine on defendant’s railroad it ran off the track, falling on top of him, and inflicting the injuries of which he complains. He charges that the derailment was caused by defendant failing to keep its track at the place where it occurred in proper repair and failing to cause the same to be properly guarded and inspected, and by permitting its road bed at said place to…