Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Powell

CONNER, Chief Justice.

Defendants in error sued for damages because of the alleged negligent killing of their son, Amos Powell, at Clifton, Texas, by one of plaintiff in error’s locomotive engines, and upon a trial were awarded a verdict and judgment for three thousand dollars. Plaintiff in error in various forms questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict or judgment, and insists that the undisputed evidence establishes its right to a judgment in its favor.

At the time Amos Powell was between twenty and twenty-one years of age, and in the employ of plaintiff in error as…