St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. McWhirter

*428Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

This action was ' brought in the Hickman Circuit Court by appellee as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Etwal McWhirter, to recover of appellant, its conductor and engineer, damages for his death, which occurred at Wolf Lake, Illinois, at which place one of appellant’s trains ran over his body; he being at the time in appellant’s employ as a flagman on the train.

It was, in substance, alleged in the petition, as amended, that in his capacity as flagman and by direction of his superiors, appellee’s intestate left Illmo, Missouri,…