Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Davis

FLY, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by petition to recover actual damages in the sum of $50,000, which appellee, who was plaintiff below, claims to have sustained in the death of his son, Edward Davis, which resulted from one train of defendant’s cars being negligently run into by another of its trains, October 10, 1886.

The plaintiff in his petition charges, that the defendant, as was its duty to do, failed to furnish the usual and customary caboose ear having end doors with glass panes, and an outlook on top, but in its stead attached an empty freight ear, with sliding side…