Schupp v. Wabash Railroad

— The plaintiff is the. wife of George Schnpp, deceased, who was killed by one of the defendant’s trains near Brunswick, Missouri, on the 13th day of December, 1908. She claims that his death was the result of defendant’s negligence, for which she claims damages under the statute in the sum of $10,000. She recovered judgment for $6000, from which defendant appealed.

There are two tracks at the point where deceased was killed, running parallel, about eight or ten feet apart, and there separating the south line curving westward, and the north line turning to the northwest. The plaintiff claims…