Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Brown

Three cases were consolidated and tried together, and from a verdict and judgment in favor of each plaintiff is this appeal.

Two of the plaintiffs were riding in a truck owned by the third plaintiff on the afternoon of July 4, 1931, at which time the truck was struck by an eastbound passenger train of the defendant, and the suits were brought to recover the damages thus inflicted. No complaint is made that the verdicts returned were excessive, hut it is insisted that certain errors were committed which call for the reversal of the judgments.

The first assignment of error is that the court erred…