Gulf S.I.R. Co. v. Bond

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Stone county in favor of appellees, Mrs. Lois Bond and two minor children, and against the appellant, in the sum of $10,000, for the wrongful death of Carson Bond, husband of Mrs. Bond, and father of the two minor children. Bond was struck and killed by a train of the appellant on the night of December 24, 1936, in the corporate limits of the town of Wiggins. At the time of his death he was twenty-four years of age, with a life expectancy of 39.49 years, and earned $12 a week, which the evidence shows was practically all spent in…