Chancey v. Dayton-Goose Creek Ry. Co.

In this cause plaintiff in error sought damages of the railway company for the death of his wife occurring out in the country between the towns of Goose Creek and Baytown, at a point on the company’s railroad opposite the plaintiff in error’s home, where his wife was killed by a train.

It was alleged that the railway company had permitted the place where Mrs. Chancey attempted to cross the railroad for a long time to be used by his family and other people in that neighborhood as a crossing, and that his wife’s death thereat, while attempting to cross the railroad at that place, and in the…