Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Gillette

On August 1, 1931, between ¿ and 9 o’clock at night, while Ralph E. Gillette, the husband of Eveline Gillette and father of the minor children Ralph E., Jr., Kitty Virginia, and Thomas Bryan Gillette, was riding in an automobile north on Cotton avenue, one of the streets in the city of El Paso, Tex., a string of some thirty cars, while being operated and pushed by the employees of appellant railway company into and over Cotton avenue,'"collided with said automobile with such force and violence that said Ralph E. Gillette was thereby crushed and mangled and from which injuries so received he…