Bollinger v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The plaintiffs, appellants, claim ten thousand dollars damages from the defendant, sustained in consequence of the death of their son, caused by the violent closing of a sliding door of one of the freight cars of the defendant company.

The lad, aged about eleven year3, was leaning against the door casing of the car; when it reached a sunken part of the switch the car lurched to the lower side of the track, collided with a platform erected near the spur track or switch, and in the sudden and violent shutting of the door the boy’s head was…