Brownfield v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

OPINION

J. CURTISS BROWN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing judgment in a suit involving an eight-year-old boy, Craig Brownfield, Jr., who was playing on a railroad trestle when he spotted a train approaching. At first, the boy ran from the train, then he turned back to try to save his five-year-old brother, who had crouched down on the side of the tracks. The younger boy survived, but the train struck and killed Craig. Appellants claim the jury’s answers to the negligence and damage issues were so against the great weight and preponderance of the evidence as to be clearly…