Hampton v. Wabash Railroad Co.

DOUGLAS, P; J.

Plaintiff as . administratrix of. her’husband’s estate recovered judgment for $40,000 under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U. S. C. A., sec. 51, against’the defen dant railroad'. Plaintiff’s husband, John Hampton, was killed by defendant’s passenger train No. 2 about two and one-half miles west of Truesdale. lie was twenty-nine years old. He had worked as a track man for fifteen years and served as foreman of an extra gang during the summer seasons for three years or more. At the time of his death he was in charge of an extra gang of seventeen men, engaged in raising,…