Davis v. Green

This is an action made up of the consolidation of two suits, both brought to make the plaintiff in error liable for what is alleged to have been the. wilful and wanton killing of Jesse Green, a conductor on the line of the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, by one McLendon, an engineer. The first suit, although alleging that the railroad'was a .common carrier both intra and interstate, may be taken to have' been brought under the state law. It was brought by the widow of Green on her own behalf and his children by her as next, friend. To this the defendant pleaded in bar among other things…