Eastlick v. Southern Railway Co.

Mrs. Eastlick brought against the Railway Company an action for the homicide of her husband; was nonsuited, and thereupon excepted. She introduced at the trial evidence warranting a finding that the deceased was killed by the running of a train of the defendant. She also introduced testimony tending to show that the engineer in charge of the train made, after the homicide, certain declarations to the effect that the deceased was sitting upon the track, “with his hands up to his jaws,” when his presence was discovered. Without objection from the plaintiff, several of the witnesses introduced…