Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Taylor

Appellee recovered a judgment for $40,000 to compensate a personal injury which he sustained, from which judgment is this appeal.

Appellant states the facts out of which the litigation arose as follows: Appellee was injured February 24, 1944, while employed by appellant as a locomotive' fireman. The accident occurred in defendant’s Texarkana, Texas, yard about 10 -.15 p. m. The moon was not shining and the night was dark, but it was not raining.

Defendant’s freight train No. 42, operating north between Shreveport, Louisiana, and DeQueen, Arkansas, stopped in the yard to set out some cars and to…