Beatty v. Thompson

This suit was instituted by Mrs. Mary Beatty and her children against Guy A. Thompson, trustee of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company, to recover damages for injuries to her husband, Joseph H. Beatty, resulting in his death. In the petition it was alleged that the said children had, and thereby, transferred all their claims and causes of action in the premises to their mother. Joseph H. Beatty was killed at a grade crossing on the railroad as a result of a collision between a freight train and his automobile.

The case was tried to a jury; at the close of plaintiff's evidence…