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Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6432 - Injury To Fellow Servant
Every person, receiver, or corporation operating a railroad or street railway, the line of which shall be situated in whole or in part in this ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6432A - Applicability Of Chapter
Notwithstanding any other law, this chapter applies to any person, receiver, or corporation except for the portion of the operations of the person, receiver, or ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6433 - Who Are Vice-Principals
All persons engaged in the service of any person, receiver, or corporation controlling or operating a railroad or street railway, the line of which shall ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6434 - Fellow-Servants
All persons who are engaged in the common service of such person, receiver, or corporation controlling or operating a railroad or street railway, and who ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6435 - Contract Limiting Liability Void
No contract made between the employer and employé based upon the contingency of death or injury of the employé and limiting the liability of the ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6436 - Contributory Negligence
Nothing in the preceding articles of this chapter shall be held to impair or diminish the defense of contributory negligence when the injury of the ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6437 - Assumed Risk
The plea of assumed risk shall not be available as a bar to recovery of damages in any suit brought in any court of this ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6438 - Double Header Trains
Employés of railway companies employed by said companies in the operation of trains within this State, propelled by two or more engines, shall not be ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6439. [6648] LIABLE FOR INJURY OR DEATH OF
EMPLOYÉ. Every corporation, receiver, or other person, operating
any railroad in this State, shall be liable in damages to any person
suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier operating
such railroad, or in case of death of such employé, to his or her
personal representative for the benefit of the surviving widow and
children, or husband and children, and mother and father of the
deceased, and, if none, then of the next kin dependent upon such
employé for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from
the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employés of such
carrier; or by reason of any defect or insufficiency due to its
negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track,
roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment. The amount
recovered shall not be liable for debts of deceased and shall be
divided among the persons entitled to the benefit of the action or
such of them as shall be alive, in such shares as the jury, or court
trying the case without a jury, shall deem proper. In case of the
death of such employé, the action may be brought without
administration by all the parties entitled thereto, or by any one or
more of them, for the benefit of all, and, if all parties be not
before the court, the action may proceed for the benefit of such of
said parties as are before the court.
Acts 1st C.S. 1909, p - 279
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Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6440 - Contributory Negligence
In all actions brought against any such common carrier or railroad under or by virtue of any provision of the foregoing article and the three ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6441 - Assumed Risk
In any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any provision of the two preceding articles to recover damages for injuries ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6442 - Contract Changing Liability Void
Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any ...
Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes Article 6443 - Articles Of This Chapter Construed
Nothing in the provisions of the four preceding articles shall be held to limit the duty or liability of common carriers, or to impair the ...
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