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THOMPSON v. GIBSON

No. 15711.

290 S.W.2d 305 (1956)

Guy A. THOMPSON, Trustee, New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway Company, Appellant, v. Jay Lee GIBSON, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson, Woodul, Arterbury & Wren, Carroll R. Graham, and Howard S. Hoover, Houston, for appellant.

Doerner, Rinehart & Stuart, Tulsa, Okl., Parks, Cire & Jamail, Fred Parks and George E. Cire, Houston, for appellee.

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought by Jay Lee Gibson against New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway Company, and others, for damages on account of personal injuries under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, as amended in 1939, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., Gibson, an engineer for the defendant Railroad and its Trustee, was injured as the result of a fall in the Settegast Railroad Yards in Harris County, Texas. Trial to a jury resulted in a judgment...

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