Louisiana, A. & T. Ry. Co. v. De Vance
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Chief Justice.
Elmer De Vance was killed in the city of Pittsburg, Camp county, on the 29th day of September, 1936, in a collision with one of appellant’s freight trains. Appel-lees, Ella De Vance and her two minor children, are the surviving wife and children of the deceased. The jury found that the servants of appellant, Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas Railway Company, as its freight train approached the crossing, failed to blow the whistle and ring the bell; that appellant’s servants failed to keep “a reasonable and proper lookout,” as the train approached the crossing, and that this…
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