Union Pacific Railroad v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• reaffirming Mitchell ’s FELA causation discussion and stating that “a defendant is liable if its negligence plays any part, however slight, in causing the injury”
• reaffirming Mitchell‘s FELA causation discussion and stating that ―a defendant is liable if its negligence plays any part, however slight, in causing the injury‖
• reaffirming in FELA case the decision in Mitchell v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.R. Co., 786 S.W.2d 659 (Tex. 1990) to the extent it held disputed evidence of foreseeability as related to duty presents question for resolution by fact-finder
• “A party is entitled to a jury question, instruction, or definition if the pleadings and evidence raise an issue.”
• “A party is entitled to a jury question, instruction, or definition if the pleadings and evidence raise an issue.”
• error in refusing an instruction reversible if it probably caused rendition of improper judgment

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