Lancaster & Wight v. Allen
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District, in an appeal from Harrison County. Action by Mrs. Allen, as administratrix of T. 0. Allen, to recover for his death while engaged in interstate commerce in the service of defendants, J. L. Lancaster and Pearl Wight, Receivers of the Texas & Pac. Ry. Plaintiff had judgment which was affirmed on appeal by defendants (207 S. W., 984), and thereupon they obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
'delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was brought by defendant in error as the personal representative of T. 0. Allen, deceased, against plaintiffs in error as receivers of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, to recover damages for the death of T. 0. Allen from injuries suffered by him while employed by said receivers in interstate commerce.
Defendant in error alleged, and offered evidence to establish, that T. 0. Allen’s death resulted from defects, due to the receivers’ negligence, in a switch point on the receivers’ track, and in a flange on a locomotive wheel, which caused the…
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