Reed v. Baldwin, Trustees, Missouri Pac. Ry.

Charles H. Reed, appellant, sued the appellees to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him on August 23, 1934, at Batesville, Arkansas. He alleges that while he was waiting for the arrival of a passenger train for which he had bought a ticket to Bowie, Texas, a freight train passed the passenger shed near to which he was standing, and that there was hanging or swinging on the side of one of the boxcars in the freight train a piece of timber, which swung out and struck him upon the head, knocking him down and severely injuring him. At the time of his injury he…