Dorsey v. Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulp Railway Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover five thousand dollars *479damages for the death of her husband, who was killed while stealing a ride on defendant’s train.

The record discloses that a brakeman of the defendant company thi ew stones or clods at plaintiff’s husband, who was riding on the rods of cie of the box cars, about midway of the train.

It appears that the local freight train of the defendant company, going north, was at or near Mansfield, La., running at the rate of about six or seven miles an hour, and that when the engine passed the…