Burt v. Missouri Pac. R.

TRIEB'ER, District Judge.

-The plaintiff instituted this action against the defendant railroad company and two of its employees, one the engineer and the other the fireman of the train which, it is alleged, caused the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. The complaint charged that the injury, from which death resulted to the intestate, was caused by the negligence of the defendants. It is alleged that, while the deceased was upon the trade of said railroad in the act of crossing the same, at a public crossing, in the town of Beebe, Ark., he was struck by a train, operated by the railroad…