Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Crow

Mr. Judge HARVEY,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the court.

On the night of March 19, 1924, C. C. Crow was struck and killed by a west bound passenger train of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, at a public road crossing in the town of Nome. This suit was brought by his widow, Mattie B. Crow, for herself and as next friend for her three minor children, to recover damages on account of Crow’s death. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the railroad company appealed, and the judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals, 300 S. W., 93.

The case was…