Missouri Pac. Railroad Co. v. Paty

This suit was brought by the appellee as administrator of the estate of J. W. Moss, deceased, for the benefit of his mother as next of kin and of his estate, for damages sustained because of his death, which occurred in a collision between a freight train on which he was riding and a switch engine in the Kenova yards of the appellant company in the town of Smack-over. It was alleged that at the time of the collision plaintiff’s intestate was riding on a flat car just in front of a load of poles where an employee of the appellant had directed him to ride, and where he was riding with the…