Court of Appeals of Texas January 8, 1908 (International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Reiden)

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee against appellant to recover $40,000 damages for personal injuries. As grounds for his recovery plaintiff alleged that while he was in defendant’s employ as a brakeman on a freight train, it became his duty to go upon the main track of defendant’s road at Tuna siding to flag an approaching passenger train, and while thereon he stepped