Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Haas

FLY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit instituted by Mrs. Hildegard Haas and her twelve children and two children of Phillip Haas, deceased, by a former wife, to recover damages in the sum of $25,000 for his death, which was produced by a moving engine on the track of appellant in the town of Dunlay, Medina County, on November 11, 1896. It was alleged in the petition that deceased was struck by a special train while he was attempting to cross the track at a public crossing, and that appellant was negligent in running into and through the town of Dun-lay at the high, unusual, and dangerous…