Borrson v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

This is the third of three actions under the wrongful death statute, Sec. 3652, R. S. 1939, Mo. R. S. A., sec. 3652, growing out of a collision on December 20, 1939, between appellant’s eastbound freight, train and a truck driven by Robert Jean White, with whom his wife, Myrtle Ann White and' their two-year-old son Raymond Arthur White were riding. The collision occurred on Caulk’s Hill road in a rural part of St. Charles county at a grade crossing where a high bluff hid the train until it was close to the highway. The plaintiff recovered judgment in each case for $10,000. The instant…