Cook v. Houston Direct Navigation Co.

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This action whs brought by appellants to recover of appellee, a corporation, damages for the death of their daughter Rosa Cook, which was alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company.

The plaintiffs resided in the city of Houston near a wharf, at which a tug boat belonging to the defendant company was accustomed to lie. Rosa, who at the time of her death was thirteen years and nine months ■old, had been in the habit of carrying milk from her parents’ residence to the boat for the use of the captain. On the day of her death she went about noon…