McGuire v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The plaintiffs, parents of Lee McGuire, deceased, sue for damages caused by his death under the wheels of defendant’s locomotive while pulling a train of cars on the night of the 24th October, 1892, from the passenger to the freight depot of defendant in, the city of Monroe. The petition charges the engine of the defendant was in bad condition, the steam escaping from the giving way of studs in the steam chest, so as to conceal from the engineer any object on the track and render useless the headlight; that the deceased walking on or near the…