Baker v. Loftin

This was a suit by the widow and children of Charles Loftin, defendant in error, against the International & Great Northern Railway Company, plaintiff in error, to recover damages arising out of Loftin’s death, caused by his being knocked from the railroad track by plaintiff in error’s passenger train.

The opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals states that the testimony developed the following facts:

“Charlie Loftin was a section foreman in the employ of appellant, and lived in appellant’s section house at Fountain switch, which is about 7 miles in a northern direction from Bryan, Tex., and…