Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Haltom
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for' the Third District, in an appeal from Hill County. Haltom and wife sued the railway company on account of the death of their son, killed by its cars. They had judgment, which was-affirmed on appeal by defendant, who then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
Defendants in error recovered against the plaintiff in error the judgment of the District Court, which, was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals, for damages for the death of their son, Finley Haltom, which, they claimed, was caused by servants of plaintiff in error.
Finley Haltom, at the time of his death, was nearly 18 years of age, of average intelligence, and familiar with the movements of trains around depots and the dangers incident thereto. With an elder brother, he had been engaged in unloading coal from cars at the company’s yard in Hillsboro, and on the…
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