Trinity & Sabine Railway Co. v. Brown

GAINES, Chief Justice.

The following questions have been certified for our determination by the Court of Civil Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District:

“The appellee recovered judgment against appellant for the death of her former husband, Lewis Nolte. This suit was instituted against appellant, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, and Geo. A. Eddy and H. C. Cross, receivers. Nolte was killed on April 2, 1890, while performing the duties of engine fireman upon appellant’s road, and one of appellant’s defenses to the suit was that their road, at the time of the death of Nolte, was in…