Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Gordon

LIGHTFOOT, Chief Justice.

The following is a correct statement of the case, and is adopted: H. C. Gordon instituted this suit June 16, 1892, in the District Court of Grayson County, Texas, against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas. The action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received June 19, J891, while plaintiff was employed as a fireman upon defendant’s line of railway, by the fall of a spout of a water tank, maintained for furnishing water for engines at Little River, which fall and the injury to plaintiff were alleged to have…