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THOMPSON v. TIPPIT

No. 13077.

300 S.W.2d 351 (1957)

Guy A. THOMPSON, Trustee, et al., Appellants, v. Orville J. TIPPIT, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied April 4, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson, Woodul, Arterbury & Wren and Roy L. Arterbury and Carroll R. Graham, Houston, for appellant.

Enlow & Kee and Floyd Enlow and Leland B. Kee, Angleton, for appellee.

GANNON, Justice.

Plaintiff, Orville J. Tippit, aged forty, and employed for many years in railroad section work—first as a hand and later as a foreman—sued Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, successor to the liability of Guy A. Thompson, Trustee of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Company, under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., to recover damages resulting from a heart attack suffered in the performance...

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