Chicago, R. I. &. G. Ry. Co. v. Dickerson

This suit was instituted in the district court of Wise county by Ed A. Dickerson against the Chicago, Rock Island *544& Gulf Railway Company to recover damages for the death of his son in a collision between, one of the defendant’s passenger trains and an automobile i in which his son was riding, near Chico, Tex., on July 29, 1920. This is a companion case to the case of Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Co. v. Steele, reported in 264 S. W. 503, writ dismissed. The defendant was alleged to have been negligent in operating the train’ at an excessive speed, in failing to sound the statutory…