Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Davis
Texas Supreme Court
Ebboe to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Davis sued the railway company for damages from the death of his son while in the company’s employ. He had judgment which was affirmed on appeal by the company, and appellant obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The assignment upon which we granted the writ of error in this case presents a very like question to that discussed in the case of Johnson v. Railway, this day decided by us. We briefly state the case and only in so far as it bears upon the questions we propose to consider. The son of the plaintiff, William Davis, was-employed as a bralreman on one of the trains on defendant’s road, and while so employed the train upon which he was engaged was run into by another train on the road and he was killed. The action was brought by his father to recover damages for his death.…
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