Keith v. T. & P. R. R.

Eads B. Keith was killed on the 2d day of June, 1925. His widow, Mrs. Winnie Keith, brought suit on her own behalf and on behalf of her minor child, Etta N. Keith, in the civil district court for the parish of Orleans, alleging that her husband, when killed, was employed as a brakeman on a train operated by defendant, the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company, which ran from Boyce, La., to Addis, La., and that “in furtherance of his duty of signaling, switching, and otherwise performing the regular duties of a brakeman and while engaged in the performance of said duty, the train, which was…