San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Wallace

HOBBY, Judge.

Frank Wallace, while employed as conductor on a-freight train of appellant, was knocked off of the top of a box car on which he was standing by a scaffold suspended from the upper portion of a truss bridge spanning the Colorado River, and on which appellant’s railroad was constructed and crossed said stream. From the injuries then received Wallace died, and this suit is the result, in which the plaintiffs (appellees, here) recovered damages in the sum of $15,000, apportioned among them as follows: To each of the deceased’s seven surviving children, $1750; to his surviving widow,…