Kirksey v. Southern Traction Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an. appeal from Hill County. Mrs. Kirksey obtained judgment against the Southern Traction Co. for causing by negligence the death of her husband. Defendant appealed and judgment was reversed and rendered in its favor. Mrs. Kirksey thereupon obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hawkins
In the District Court, upon a jury’s verdict, Mrs. Pearl Kirksey obtained a judgment against the Southern Traction Company for $5000 as damages for causing the death of her husband, James Kirksey, by negligently operating an express and baggage trolley ear across a public road at Homewood, a station in Ellis County, on the line of the Traction Company’s interurban electric railway.
In the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District that judgment was reversed, and judgment was rendered in favor of the Traction Company, upon the holding by that court that, under all the…
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