St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Burke

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

On the 5th day of February, 1902, T. W. Burke was a passenger on one of defendant’s trains ón its line of railway between Tyler and Gilmer. While he was such pas •senger, at some time between midnight and daybreak, a collision between the train on which he was riding and another train took place. He continued on his journey to Gilmer, and later returned home. On the 25th day of May, 1902, while sitting in front of the Binkley Hotel at his home in Sherman, he suddenly fell dead. His wife, Rachel Burke, and his six children, two of whom were adults, the other four of…