Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Snowden

KEY, Associate Justice.

Charley Snowden, a boy thirteen years and ten months old, while walking on the railroad track of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Bailway Company, at a point about two miles south of the town of Elgin, was struck by a southbound passenger train and killed. Thereafter his father and mother brought this suit against the railway company to recover damages on account of the alleged wrongful killing of their son.

The plaintiffs alleged in their petition that the point on the railroad track where the deceased was struck was on a dump 20 feet high and sixty yards south of a trestle…