H. T. C. R. R. Co. v. Oram

Nellie M. Oran and her four children brought this suit in the District Court of Grayson County, Texas, on the 1st day of February, 1905, to recover against the Houston Texas Central Railroad Company, on account of the death of Ben F. Oram, the husband of Nellie M., and the father of her four coplaintiffs, minors, respectively, three, five, six and eight years of age. Oram's death was caused by his getting his foot caught in one of the frogs in defendant's yards at Sherman, Texas, on the 10th day of December, 1904, while he was acting as switchman, and being run over by a car which he was…