Sherman, Shreveport & Southern Railway Co. v. Bridges

TARLTOU,

Chibe Justice.—The appellee, for himself and as representative of his minor son, John Bridges, recovered from the appellant a verdict and judgment in the sum of $1000, apportioned equally between the two, as damages sustained on account of the death of his wife, Mrs. Margaret Bridges, ascribed to the negligence of the defendant company.

The plaintiff and his wife lived on a farm four miles west of Sulphur Springs, in Hopkins County, Texas, within a distance of 150 or 200 yards north of the defendant’s line of railway. On Uovember 27, 1894, Mrs. Bridges went in a buggy to the town of…