Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. v. Baker

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice.

Appellees, Jady H. Baker, aged 40, and Grover Baker, aged 43, the surviving sons (and there are no other children) of Mrs. Ella Mae Baker, 65 years of age, who was killed at a railroad crossing at about 7:00 a.m. on the first of June, 1959, at Wilton, Arkansas, filed this suit against appellant, Kansas City Southern Railway Company, to recover for mental anguish. The complaint alleges that the operators of the train failed to give the statutory signals upon approaching the crossing and failed to keep a proper lookout, and that the railroad company had…