Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Matthews

TEMPLETON, Associate Justice.

The defendants in error, who are the wife and minor children of J. L. Matthews, deceased, brought this suit to recover the damages sustained by them on account of his death, which it was alleged was occasioned by the negligence of the plaintiff in error. On a trial before a jury they obtained judgment for $10,000.

A little after 6 o’clock in the morning of May 8, 1899, a north-bound freight train of the plaintiff in error ran over a man who afterwards proved to be the said J. L. Matthews. The man was dead when found a few minutes later. There were no eyewitnesses…