St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Cole

On June 14, 1912, Rebecca Cole, defendant in error, sued St. Louis San Francisco Railroad Company, plaintiff in error, in the district court of Murray county, in damages for the negligent killing of her husband, E.O. Cole. The petition, after making certain formal allegations not necessary here to mention, substantially states that on April 10, 1912, her husband was engaged at Fletcher, Okla., in loading stock into one of defendant's cars set by defendant upon its spur track opposite a chute on its stock platform; that the platform was 25 feet long and 4 feet 4 inches high and was 3 feet 4…