Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Brentford

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

Appellee brought this action to recover damages for an injury received by him while in the employment of appellant.

With others, on the night of November 5, 1889, appellee was engaged in loading a flat car with railroad iron, each bar of which weighed as much as 600 pounds. The iron as brought from a ship by its servants was received from their hands by the employes of appellant, eight in number, who would immediately, and without laying it down, carry it to the car on which it was to be placed, when at a signal to be given by one of them, who was agreed upon, all were…