Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Ferch

This appeal is from a recovery by appellee of $5000 damages for personal injuries.

The special verdict, omitting unimportant findings, establishes the following conclusions:

1. On the 1st day of May, 1893, near Houston, Texas, appellee, while engaged as a member of a pile-driving crew in the employ of appellant in operating a pile driver, received the injuries complained of.

2. While in the act of placing a ring on a pile that was being driven, the hammer fell upon his hands, crushing the right hand, so that the index finger and thumb had to be amputated, and injuring also, though less severely,…