Mo. Pac. Ry. Co., Thompson, Trustee v. Farman

Eddie Preston Parman, the 16-year-old son of Kelly Parman, was employed at a mill adjacent to the right-of-way of the appellant railroad company, in the city of Benton, and he contributed to his father practically all of his wages. On September 23, 1943, about noon, the young man left his place of employment to go home for his lunch, and a few minutes later his mutilated body was found between the two tracks of the railroad. Both of these were main line tracks, one for trains northbound, the other for southbound trains. The body was found about six or seven hundred feet west of the Market…