Sullivan v. G. N.I.R.R. Co.

Action for damages for the death of J.W. Sullivan, the husband of plaintiff. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $4500 and defendant has appealed.

The defendant offered no evidence and there is no substantial conflict in the testimony. The servants of defendant were backing a train of fourteen or fifteen flat cars in an easterly direction on the main track of the railroad at the Two of Gideon in New Madrid County. As this train reached a much travelled street crossing in the town, the deceased who was passing north along the street stepped on the track immediately in front of the end car of…