Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. Sallee

McMEAHS, Associate Justice.

Virgil Sallee brought this suit against the Houston, East & West Texas Railway Company for himself and as next friend for Ids minor child, Annabel Sallee, to recover damages growing out of personal injuries received by said minor alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the railway company.

Plaintiff alleged that the child, then twenty months old, wandered from the nearby residence of its parents upon or in dangerous proximity to the track of defendant’s railroad and was struck and injured by a passing engine and cars composing a freight train then being…