Brott v. Texas Pac. Ry. Co.

Plaintiff, widow of Willis R. Brott, filed this suit for $25,000 damages against the defendant railroad company. The petition alleges that her husband, upon his discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States on June 2, 1945, at New Orleans, Louisiana, purchased a ticket from the defendant carrier from that city to its division point at Fort Worth, Texas; that her husband boarded their train and his body was discovered the next morning on the right-of-way of defendant carrier at a point one-half mile south of Lake End station in Red River Parish, Louisiana. She alleged that the death…