Compton v. Texas N. O. R. Co.

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant against appellee, and other defendants who were dismissed from the suit by plaintiff on the trial in the court below.

The cause of action alleged in appellant’s petition was for damages for the death of her husband, Charles Compton, which the petition alleges was caused by the negligence of appellee’s servants and agents in the operation of a train of ap-pellee across a public highway. The following are the specific grounds of negligence alleged in the petition:

“1. The defendant failed in -its statutory and common law duty to blow the…