Jones v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

LE BLANC, Judge.

On January 4, 1933, just a minute or two before midnight, plaintiff’s husband, Hebert Hoskins Hill, drove his Ford automobile into a box car of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company on Landry street in the city of Opelousas. The train of which the box car formed a part had just started to move forward slowly, and the automobile was dragged a few feet across the street. Either the impact itself or the dragging of the automobile caused the latter to catch fire, and, as a result, a woman who was a guest passenger with Hill died before she could be rescued from the flames, and Hill…