Young v. Thompson

OTT, Judge.

The suit is for damages in the sum of thirty five thousand • dollars, one half for the surviving widow and one half for the minor child of Stephen Wesley Young who was run over and killed by a freight train of the defendant railroad company in the afternoon of August 31, 1937. The deceased was walking in a northerly direction in the center of the track about one and one-half miles north of Oakdale when he was struck from the rear by the train which was going in the same direction as was the deceased.

After filing an answer, the defendant filed an exception of no cause or right of…