MISSOURI-PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. PREJEAN

No. 13139.

307 S.W.2d 284 (1957)

MISSOURI-PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Alcide PREJEAN, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

Rehearing Denied December 5, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

W. James Kronzer, Robert L. Steely, Hill, Brown, Kronzer & Abraham, Houston, Ragan & Weaver, Houston, of counsel, for appellee.


WOODRUFF, Justice.

Appellee, Alcide Prejean, filed this suit under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., seeking a recovery of damages for personal injuries received by him on December 3, 1953, while acting within the course and scope of his employment with Guy A. Thompson, receiver of Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railway Company. Before the trial on October 30, 1956, the Missouri-Pacific Railroad Company was substituted as the...

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