Matlock v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of dismissal entered after the court sustained certain special exceptions to appellant’s petition and after he refused to amend. Appellant’s suit was for damages resulting from the breach of an alleged lifetime employment contract by appellee. The facts alleged with respect to the employment contract and its breach by appellee are as follows:

For a number of years prior to 1926 appellant was employed by appellee as a “master mechanic’’ in its machine shops at Brown-wood, Tex. In the year 1926, and while, in the discharge of his duties as master…