Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Wylie

This suit was instituted by appellee, Mrs. M. C. Wylie, against appellant, Texas & Pacific Railway Company, to recover damages for the death of her son, Robert L. Wylie, who was run over and killed by one of appellant’s ears at Hodge, a shipping station on appellant’s line of railway. Said station was a shipping point for the Transcontinental Oil Company. Appellant used three parallel tracks in handling its business at that point. One was the main line and the other two were switch tracks. One of these was used as a passing track, and the other was called the stock track. These tracks were…