Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. of Texas v. Beasley

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

In May, 1957, Kenneth Beasley and wife and their daughter, Patricia, went to Rotan to visit Mrs. Beasley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Eakins. Soon after they arrived, all of them went in an automobile driven by Mr. Eakins to near Breckenridge. Early on the return trip they encountered a fog. They stopped for a visit in Hamlin. About 2:30 a. m. they started to the Eakins’ home in Rotan but, in the edge of Hamlin, Mr. Eakins drove his automobile into the ninth car back of the engine of a Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company of Texas train which was traveling over…