Keanum v. Southern Ry. Co.

The appellants, Oma Lea Keanum and Elbert Keanum, minors, suing by their guardian and next friend, Charley Lawson, instituted this suit in the circuit court of Tishomingo county against the Southern Railway Company, seeking to recover damages for the death of their father, Tilden H. Keanum, which was alleged to have been the result of injuries received by him on account of the negligent operation of appellee’s freight train through the incorporated town of Burns-ville, Miss.

To the declaration, the appellee filed special pleas which it denominated “pleas of res adjudicata,” in which pleas it…