Texas and New Orleans Railroad Co. v. Broadway

McNEILL, Justice.

This is a railroad crossing accident case. Appellees, D. H. Broadway and son, D. L. Broadway, sued appellant for damages for personal injuries resulting from a collision between a 1947 model Ford car which the son, as employee of his father, was driving and one of appellant’s freight trains at what is known as the Mahl Crossing on FM Road 698 in Nacogdoches County. At the time the car was towing a cub farm tractor upon which the father was riding.

On trial to a jury appellant was found negligent in the following respects: (1) in failing to blow the train whistle at a distance…