Williams v. Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis Railroad

The plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, brought this suit to recover damages for the death of their son, who was run over by defendant’s cars and killed at the town of Augusta, also called Thayer. Plaintiffs kept a boarding-house in the town about one hundred yards from the depot. The boy was intelligent, twelve years of age, and had been raised on and near railroads. A train of eight or ten box-cars in front, loaded with ties, and several empty cars in the rear, came in from the south. Suter, the switch engineer, took the train up opposite the freight depot. The flatcars were then cut…