Yazoo & M. v. R. Co. v. Beasley

The appellees, the father, mother, brothers, and sisters, and the father suing as administrator of Roy Beasley, deceased, by their declaration, charged, that Roy Beasley was killed by the negligent operation of a train of the appellant railroad company where its railroad crosses South State street in the city of Jackson, Mississippi. The negligence, charged succinctly, stated was that the train of the appellant was backed over the South State street crossing in the nighttime at an unlawful rate of speed, without a flagman on the rear end of the train or on the ground preceding the train; that…