Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Ry. Co. v. Collins

This is an action for damages for wrongful death brought by the plaintiff, Martha Elner Collins, administratrix of the estate of James Edward Collins, deceased, against the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company. The trial court submitted the cause to a jury, which returned a verdict for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.

From the record it appears that the deceased, who was 73 years old at the time he was killed, was driving a pickup truck on a country road -which crossed the railroad tracks of the defendant between a quarter and a half mile south of the town of Clarita, in Coal county. The…