Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Box

MARR, Judge, Section A.

The plaintiff brought this suit in the court below, and recovered damages of the defendant company on account of personal injuries to his wife, alleged by him to have been inflicted as the 'direct consequence of the "negligent and wanton” acts of the engineer or other employes in charge of the defendant’s train of cars "in blowing and continuing to blow the whistle of the engine” attached to said train, "loud and shrill,” and "when there was no reasonable excuse, occasion, or necessity for blowing said whistle,” whereby the horses to the wagon in which plaintiff’s wife…