Texas v. Harrington
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Ninth Supreme Judicial District. Suit by Alice Ilarringtoij and others against Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company. From a judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals (209 S. W. 685), reversing a judgment in their favor, plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
About 8 o’clock on the morning of October 1, 1917, Claude Harrington and' Herbert Peveto were leaving Orange, Tex.,‘in a Ford car. They drove out Park street, and when crossing the main line track of the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, intersecting said street, their automobile was struck by the locomotive of a westbound passenger train of the railroad company aforesaid, and both men killed almost instantly. Shortly thereafter the widow of Harrington, for herself and as next friend for her four minor children, brought this action for damages in the district court of Orange county,…
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