Allen v. Texas N. O. R. Co.

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellants, Mrs. C. S. Allen, surviving wife of C. S. Allen, deceased, and her six children, against appel-lee, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, to recover damages for the death of said husband and father, which they alleged was caused by the negligence of appellee. Appel-lee’s railroad runs north and south along one of the streets of the city of Calvert. Said street is intersected at right angles by Burnett street, which runs east and west. The deceased, C. S. Allen, was attempting to cross from the west to the east side of appellee’s…