Kurn v. Youngblood

Hettie Youngblood, the mother of Ambers Austin Youngblood, deceased, obtained a judgment against the trustees for St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, a corporation, for $10,000 damages for the death of her son occasioned by being struck and run over by a train of trustees. The trustees appeal. The first contention presented by trustees is that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict of the jury and that the trial court should have sustained a demurrer to the evidence and should have sustained trustees’ motion for directed verdict.

The evidence adduced by the mother in…