Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Gay
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Second District, in an appeal from Tarrant County. This was an appeal from a judgment for $10,000 damages in favor of Bancy J. Gay and her daughter against the plaintiff in error for negligently causing the death of the husband and father. The principal matters discussed in this case were decided in answer to certified questions. Railway v. Gay, 86 Texas, 571. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
—Nancy J. Gay, for herself and minor child, Bessie Gay, on the 6th day of February, 1888, sued John C. Brown, as receiver of the Texas & Pacific Bailway Company, in the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, for damages resulting to them from the death of John M. Gay, the husband and father of plaintiffs, alleging, that Brown was appointed such receiver by the United States Circuit Court, at Dallas, and that while said receiver was operating said road, John M. Gay, being in the employ of said receiver as fireman on a train of said road, in Parker County, Texas, was…
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