Adams v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Lloyd L. Adams was killed in a collision between the Ford automobile in which he was riding and a freight train of the Missouri - Kansas-Texas Railroad Company. His administrator brought an action against the company and recovered a judgment, from which this appeal is taken.

Several grounds of negligence were alleged and were submitted to the jury. The conduct of the defendant upon which the verdict was based (as shown by a special finding) was in causing the engine of another freight train on a sidetrack to stand in such a place as to…