Louisville & N. R. v. Whisenant

*430Holmes, J.

The appellant, appeals from an adverse jury verdict and judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, awarding- to the appellees damages in the sum of $20,000 for the alleged wrongful injury and death of Wilbourn Houston Whisenant, a boy of the age of twelve years. Appellees are the father, mother, brother and sister of the decedent.

The tragedy resulting in the decedent’s injury and subsequent death occurred between 10 and 10:30 o’clock on the morning of August 24, 1950 at the Bayou Cosotte crossing- in Jackson County, where the appellant’s line of railroad crosses what is known…