Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway Co. v. Martin

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Joe Martin, a boy over 16 years-old, was killed February 11, 1903, in a wreck caused by the negligence of appellant’s servants in running a freight train, on which he was riding, at a dangerously high rate of speed over a rough track, which resulted in breaking the flange of a wheel and the derailment of the train.

The deceased, according to the allegations of the petition, was "well grown and of good judgment for a person of his age;” and, according to the testimony of his father, "was a very bright boy, quick to catch on, attentive, and intended to make a railroad…