Magers v. Okolona, Houston & Calhoun City R.

Mrs. Effie Magers, on behalf of herself and her children, brought an action against the railroad company for dam ages alleged, to have accrued by reason of the death of Allen Magers, their son and brother, respectively, who was instantly killed in the collision of a motorcar driven by him against a gondola car loaded with gravel, standing on the railroad track, which gondola car, it is alleged, was negligently and unlawfully placed upon a public highway or street, and allowed to remain there blockading a considerable part of the traveled highway or street.

The railroad company filed a plea of…