New York, Texas & Mexican Railway Co. v. Green

GAINES, Chief Justice.

The following is taken from the statement of the ease which accompanies the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals:

“This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages for injuries sustained by him in the wreck of an engine and train belonging to appellant, upon which he was the engineer in appellant’s service. The petition charged that the wreck was caused by the negligence of appellant in allowing its road to be in a defective condition in that the width of the road-bed or dump was not sufficient to support trains, the rails were worn out and worthless, the cross-ties…