Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Riley

HALL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages brought by appellee as administratrix of the estate of G. J. Riley, deceased, on behalf of herself and her three minor children, aged 12, 10 and 7 years. Appellee alleged that G. J. Riley, her deceased husband and father of her minor children, on December 19, 1942, the date of his death, was employed by appellant as a member of one of its bridge and building crews; that at the time of his death, G. J. Riley was assisting the other members of the bridge crew in unloading bridge piling from a flat car on the main line of appellant’s railroad; that…