GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY v. DEEN

No. 3135.

275 S.W.2d 529 (1955)

GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Earl R. DEEN, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodruff & Holloway, Brownwood, Hudson, Keltner & Sarsgard, Ft. Worth, for appellant.

McCord, Durant & Witts, Robert Lee Guthrie, Dallas, for appellee.


GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

On July 12, 1949, Earl R. Deen had his leg broken by babbitt falling from a melting pot and he sued his employer, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, for damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. See 45 U.S.C.A. § 53. Deen had then been employed by said company as a coppersmith in its roundhouse in Brownwood for eleven years. The company kept there a babbitt melting pot which had cracked and was no longer usable...

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