Legal Opinion
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. v. Bernhardt
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 28, 1967No. 11509PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’QUINN, Justice.
The Bernhardts, father and son, brought this lawsuit for damages resulting from a nighttime railroad crossing accident when the son, then a minor 19 years old, while driving his automobile home alone, collided with the side of a freight train stopped across a farm-to-market road.
Plaintiffs pleaded in their original petition, that defendant, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, was negligent by parking the train so as to block the road, by failing to station a flagman at the crossing, and by failing to place a warning light and a mechanical signal bell at the crossing. The…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. DillonSupreme Court of Delaware · 1921
- Fort Worth & Denver Railway Company v. WilliamsTexas Supreme Court · 1964
- Texas & N. O. R. v. StrattonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1934
- Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. LongTexas Commission of Appeals · 1927
- Wichita Valley Ry. Co. v. FiteCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1934
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Missouri Pacific Railroad v. CooperTexas Supreme Court · 1978
- Port Terminal RR Ass'n v. RichardsonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1991
- Linda Richards and Dorothy Richards v. Southern Pacific TransportationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Texas City Terminal Railway Co. v. BlahaCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1973
- Arthur Walker v. Kansas City Southern Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
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