Hall v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.

The plaintiff is the surviving widow of Joe Hall, who was run over and killed by a freight train of the Kansas City Southern Railway Company on April 20, 1941, around 7:15 P.M. while he was sitting or lying in a drunken stupor on the track something over three quarters of a mile north of the City limits of DeQuincy and between 700 and 800 feet south of a road crossing known as Wasey Crossing. The widow brought this suit against the railroad and the engineer of the train, J.B. Harris, for damages in the sum of $18,000. The trial judge rejected her demands, and she has appealed.

Plaintiff…