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

FINLEY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit instituted by the wife and children of Joseph Duvall, deceased, to recover damages on account of the alleged negligent killing of the said Joseph Duvall by the appellant railway company. Their petition charges, in substance, that Joseph Duvall was working as a section hand on defendant’s road about 200 feet north of the depot at Pecan Gap, in Delta County, a regular station on defendant’s road, at the time he was killed. That he was wholly without experience in railroading, and knew nothing whatever about the movements and operation of railroad trains,…