Tisdale v. Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co.
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court oí Civil Appeals of Seventh Supreme Judicial District. Action by Mrs. Martha A. Tisdale and another, on behalf of themselves and others, against the Panhandle & Sante Fé Kailway Company. Judgment for plaintiffs was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals (199 S. W. 347), and the plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtPo’Well, J.
This is an action in damages, instituted in the district court of Gray county, Tex., by Martha A. Tisdale and May Bell Tisdale, for themselves and others, against the Panhandle & Santa Fé Kailway Company, for the alleged negligent killing of C. K. Tisdale by said railway company on a public crossing near the depot in the town of Pampa on the 15th day' of June, 1915. Plaintiffs alleged three grounds of negligence on the part of said railway company in the killing of the said C. K. Tisdale as follows: (1) Failure to keep a watchman at the crossing; (2) pushing the train over the crossing…
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