Pecos & N. T. Ry. Co. v. Collins

This is an appeal from a judgment against the appellant, the Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Company, for $5,-000, in favor of appellee, Robert Collins. The cause of action alleged and submitted to the jury.is in effect:

That appellee was in the employ of appellant, as section foreman, on the 27th day of May, 1912. That appellant shipped, on its line of road in Texas, ties which were to be used by appellee and men under his charge in repairing the road. That before shipping the ties they had been immersed in the chemical solution known and called creosote. That he did not know the full nature…