Denver & Rio Grande Railroad v. Frederic

The suit was filed in the District Court of El Paso County December 8th, 1909, by appellees, the parents of the deceased, against the railroad company, appellant, alleging that by its own careless, negligent and unskilful acts, and those of its officers, agents, servants'and employes, in operating one of its trains, the death of Frank G. Frederic, their unmarried son twenty-seven years old, was occasioned. On the 14th of August, 1909, deceased was riding on the defendant’s north bound passenger train on a free pass, and met his death through a head-on collision between that and another…