Fordyce v. Dixon

Stayton, Chief Justice.

This action was originally brought by W. M. Dixon, with leave of the circuit court of the United States, against W. R. Woodward, receiver, appointed by that court to conduct the business of the Texas &St. Louis Railway Company, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by his wife while a passenger on the train operated by the receiver.

Woodward resigned, and the plaintiff in error was appointed to the receivership in his stead, and made party defendant. Dixon died pending the action, and his wife, in her own right, and as next friend for their minor…