Bragg v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

KAROHL, Judge.

Ronald Bragg, husband of Twana Marie Bragg, attempts an appeal from an order of the trial court which approved a settlement of $195,000 for the wrongful death of Twana Marie Bragg. Plaintiffs were appellant-husband, Rebecca Hampsten, mother, and Roger Barton, father. Plaintiffs are members of class one under Section 537.080(1) A.L.1979 [RSMo 1986]. Only husband appeals.

On September 29, 1984, an Amtrak train struck the car Marie was driving at a crossing with tracks of defendant Missouri Pacific Railroad. At the time of her death she was seventeen years old and her husband, of…