Louisiana & A. Ry. Co. v. Chapin

LINCOLN, Justice.

The appellees, as surviving widow and minor children of Roger Chapin, recovered judgment against the appellant for damages resulting in the death of Roger Chap-in, which was occasioned by a collision between appellant’s train and the deceased’s automobile' in Sulphur Springs, Texas, where Main Street crosses appellant’s railroad tract. In response to the special issues submitted to them, the jury found:(1) That immediately before the collision the deceased was in a position of peril, that the operatives of the train discovered his position of peril before the collision in…