Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Campbell, Adm'r

The appeal is from a judgment for $25,000 on a verdict finding that appellant railroad company violated the lookout statute. Pope’s Digest, § 11144. In consequence of this alleged negligence, appellee’s intestate was killed.

Prior to the tragedy F. O. Campbell had been a locomotive fireman, engaged for many years by the Rock Island system. For three years or more he had been laid off; but, as his wife testified, was occasionally called to make runs, “and had retained his seniority.”

Campbell was killed February 26, 1938, .presumably by freight train No. 160, operating between McGehee and Little…