Louisville N.R. Co. v. Cantrell

This suit was brought by Will C. Cantrell and by Frank Cantrell, a minor by his nest friend Steve Taylor, for damages for the death of their wife and mother respectively, a colored woman named Helen Otelia Cantrell, about twenty-three years of age, who was killed on June 22, 1940, by a freight train of the defendant Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company on the right of way of the railroad at a point near Pilot Knob, Tennessee.

The declaration alleged that- the servants and agents of the defendant negligently and wrongfully ran the locomotive and train over Otelia Cantrell and killed her;…