Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Cardena

FISHER, Chief Justice.

—The appellee sued the railway company for damages arising from the alleged negligent killing of her daughter by being run over by one of its locomotives in the city of Waco. The alleged negligence consisted in operating the locomotive, in that it ivas being run at a much higher rate of speed along Jackson Street, in the city of Waco, than allowed by the ordinance of the city, and that the ordinance was further violated, in that those operating the locomotive negligently failed to ring the bell and bloiv the whistle; and that the appellant was guilty of negligence in not…