Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Slatton

Leo Slatton, a minor, by his father and next friend, Cecil Slatton, brought suit in the Randolph circuit court against L. W. Baldwin and Cuy A. Thompson as trustees of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, alleging that the appellants operated a line of railroad through the town of O’Kean in Randolph county, Arkansas, and that the home of the appellee and his father was situated immediately west of the track of said railroad company from where the depot was located in the town of O’Kean; that at the north end of the depot was a well defined pathway constructed with cinders and chat, which…