ORTEGA v. TEXAS-NEW MEXICO RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 6988.

370 P.2d 201 (1962)

70 N.M. 58

Manuel ORTEGA and Standard Accident & Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TEXAS-NEW MEXICO RAILWAY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

March 29, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal & Neal, Hobbs, Hill D. Hudson, Pecos, Tex., for appellant.

L. George Schubert, Hobbs, for appellees.


NOBLE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment upon a jury verdict awarding damages to Manuel Ortega (one of the appellees) for injuries sustained by him while unloading a car of transite pipe delivered by appellant railway company to his employer. Standard Accident and Insurance Company was the workmen's compensation carrier for Ortega's employer and was allowed recovery of compensation payments made by it out of the award to Ortega.

Appellant received...

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