FORT WORTH AND DENVER RAILWAY COMPANY v. COFFMAN

No. 16671.

397 S.W.2d 544 (1965)

FORT WORTH AND DENVER RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. Harold W. COFFMAN, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied January 7, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tilley, Hyder & Law, Fort Worth, Friberg & Parish, Wichita Falls, Touchstone & Sampels and M. D. Sampels, Dallas, for appellant.

Rumph, Ivy & Karpenko, Fort Worth, Philip S. Kouri, Wichita Falls, Helm, Jones & Pletcher, and George E. Pletcher, Houston, for appellee.


RENFRO, Justice.

Plaintiff, Harold W. Coffman, in an action arising under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, recovered a verdict and judgment in the amount of $160,000 from the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company.

Evidence was introduced by and for plaintiff that he was injured on February 18, 1961, when the caboose in which he was riding derailed. On that date he, a freight conductor, was advised by supervisors that he and his crew were "doubling back...

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