Chicago, R. I. & G. Ry. Co. v. Cummings

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

Mrs. Katherine Cummings, administra-trix of the estate of B. F. Cummings, deceased, brought this suit against the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad Company and the Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Company and its trustees, Frank 0. Low-den, James E. Gorman, and Joseph B. Fleming, for the benefit of herself as surviving widow and for the benefit of B. F. Cummings, Jr., and Mrs. Katherine White, son and daughter, respectively of B. F. Cummings, deceased, to recover damages for his death. The deceased was conductor of a switching crew operating in the yards, at Teague,…