Lancaster v. Browder

At a public street or road crossing in. the town of Cordon, containing 600 to 800 inhabitants, Mrs. Julia Browder was on November 24, 1920, struck and killed by a train of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, operated by ■ plaintiffs in error, Lancaster and Wallace, as receivers.

Suit for damages was instituted in the district court of Palo Pinto county by her surviving husband and children, was submitted to a jury on special issues, and resulted in an apportioned verdict and judgment for $11,001, from which an appeal was prosecuted by the receivers to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second…