Houston v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

This is a suit of the plaintiff in his own light and as tutor of his minor children for $22,500 damages, resulting from the death of Ms wife, Mrs. Georgia Houston, and infant child, run over and hilled hy the train of the defendant company on the 13th of January, 1885.

It is charged in the petition that “ the killing was wantonly and recklessly done, and might have been avoided by ordinary care and prudence on tlie part of the employees of the railway company.”

The answer is a general denial and an averment that the deatli was caused by…