St. Louis S.W. Ry. Co. v. Braswell, Administrator

The appeal presents three questions. First, was there support for the jury’s finding that appellants’ engineer could and should have discovered the perilous position of appellee’s intestate in time to have averted injury if the statutory lookout had been kept? Second, did the injured man experience conscious suffering? Third, is the judgment for funeral expenses supported .by law?

Appellee, administrator of the estate of F. J. Bras-well, alleged the negligent killing of the intestate (his father), who at the time of the accident was 79 years of age. The only eye-witness was John Kennedy. He…