Payne v. Shepler

This was a suit by Mrs. Lola E. Shepler, temporary administra-trix of the estate of J. E. Shepler, deceased, for the benefit of herself and the minor children of herself and said J. E. Shepler, against John Barton Payne, Federal Agent of Railroads, for damages on account of the death of said J. E. Shepler, the husband and father..Plaintiff alleged, substantially, that J. E. Shepler was a locomotive fireman on a passenger train engaged in interstate commerce on the St, Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad, and that on October 29, 1919, the train was wrecked near the town of Marianna between…