Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Taff

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

-A collision between a passenger train and a hand car, which took place November 30, 1900, on appellant’s road between Bonita and Saint Jo, in Montague County, produced the personal injuries made the basis of recovery in this case. Appellee and another section hand, who had been engaged that day in burning off the right of way for appellant, were returning in the afternoon to Saint Jo on the hand car, as they had been directed to do by the section foreman, when a regular passenger train going in the opposite direction suddenly came around a curve in a deep cut and…