Texas Consolidated Transportation Co. v. Eubanks

TIREY, Justice.

This is a negligence case growing out of a collision of a truck of appellant with a locomotive of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Appellees are the surviving wife and daughter of W. G. Eubanks, the engineer who lost his life as a result of the collision. Pertinent to this discussion all issues were answered by the jury favorable to the appellees and the jury awarded to Mrs. Eubanks the sum of $125,-000, and to their thirteen year old daughter, Billie Margie Eubanks, the sum of $37,500. The jury acquitted the railroad and its employees of all responsibility for the…