Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Burden

Mrs. Nellie Burden recovered a judgment for the death of her husband in the sum of $17,950.00 against the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company. The jury made the following findings:

1. The operators of defendant’s passenger train on the occasion in question approached and passed over said crossing, where deceased was struck and killed, at a greater rate of speed than a person of ordinary prudence, in the exercise of ordinary care, would have operated same, and such negligence was a proximate cause. 2. The engineer and fireman in charge of the operation of said train as it approached said…