Buckner v. Southern Ry. Co.

Plaintiff in error, Gladys Buckner, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Hugh Buckner, instituted this suit to recover damages for the death of her intestate, who sustained injuries resulting in his death while riding upon one of. defendant in error’s engines. The circuit judge sustained a motion for peremptory instructions in behalf of the railway company and the ad-ministratrix has appealed in error to this court. The case may be better stated by referring to the parties as plaintiff and defendant as they appeared in the lower court.

The accident occurred on May 3, 1933,…