Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Duty

Eor convenience the plaintiffs in error, Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company and J. D. Lancaster and O. L. Wallace, receivers of the Texas Pacific Railway Company, will'be designated in this opinion as “appellants,” and the defendant in error, E. O. Duty, will be designated as “appellee.”

About 9 o’clock on the night of May 18, 1923, while appellee was driving across a public crossing over the railroad track of appellants in the city of El Paso, in a Ford automobile, said automobile was struck by a loco-1 motive of appellants, which was drawing a freight train of 17 cars on…