Texas, & N. O. R. Co. v. Grass
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Harris County ; J. D. Harvey, Judge. Suit by Mrs. Sallie Glass and others against the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. Reversed, unless remit-titurs be filed.
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
By this appeal the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company seeks revision of a judgment against it below for $20,-000 in favor of Mrs. Sallie Glass and her two daughters, apportioned $10,000 to Mrs. Glass, and $5,000 each' to the daughters.
These- amounts were so awarded them by a jury as actual damages for the death of their husband and father, A. M. Glass, Sr.; he, while in th'e course of his employment as foreman of a wrecking crew for appellant, had been hit on the head and killed by a truss rod, pulled from underneath a car the company was wrecking or dismantling in its yards at Houston.
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