Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. v. Sanderson

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

L. E. Sanderson brought this suit against Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company of Texas to recover damages for the death of his two-year-old son, allegedly killed by the negligent operation of one of defendant’s trains. There were no witnesses to the accident. Plaintiff lived just south of defendant’s railroad, where the latter for some distance ran in an east-west course for a considerable distance. A foot path from plaintiff’s house to his cow lot and barn crossed the track at a point a little northeast from the residence. The body, was found a few feet west of the…