Cox v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

Plaintiffs sued to recover for the death of their minor daughter, Cinda Cox, aged nineteen years, killed .on a crossing in the city of Clarkton in Dunklin county on January 25, 1926. The petition charged that defendant was negligent (1) by backing its train over the crossing at fifteen miles an hour in violation of a speed ordinance limiting the speed of trains in the city limits to five miles per hour; (2) by backing its train at a high and dangerous rate of speed pver the crossing obscured from view in approaching from the north; and (3) by a violation of the humanitarian rule. The answer…