Borrson v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

This is one of three actions under the wrongful death statute, Sec. 3652, R.S. 1939, Mo. R.S.A., sec. 3652, growing out of a collision between appellant's eastbound freight train and a truck driven by Robert Jean White, with whom his wife, Myrtle Ann White, and their two year old son Raymond Arthur White were riding. It occurred on December 20, 1939 at a railroad grade crossing over Caulk's Hill road in St. Charles County. All three truck passengers were killed. In each action there was a judgment for the plaintiff for $10,000, from which the railroad company appealed. One of them was brought…