Bonner and Eddy v. Whitcomb

MARR, Judge.

Mary E. Whitcomb and her five minor children brought this suit for damages for the death of the husband and father of appellees, Edward Whitcomb, who was killed in a collision while in tlie employ of appellants as locomotive engineer on defendants’ road, at the town of Riverside, on the 17th day of March, 1889.

Plaintiffs aver that at the place of the fatal accident defendants have two roads crossing each other—the main line on which deceased was running a passenger engine, and the other a short road running into a rock quarry, on which defendants’ trains' were hauling rock. That…