H. & T. C. R'y Co. v. Hook
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Havarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. On the 6th day of September, 1880, W. L. Gilleland, a brakeman in the employ of the H. & T. C. R’y Co., was one of a crew — Jno.
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Appeal from Havarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. On the 6th day of September, 1880, W. L. Gilleland, a brakeman in the employ of the H. & T. C. R’y Co., was one of a crew — Jno. Good, conductor — who boarded and took charge of a freight train of appellant, at Corsicana, to run a trip from Corsicana to Denison and return, the northern division of appellant’s line of railway, the train consisting of eighteen box and stock and lumber cars; Gilleland was braking on the front cars, and ,E. A. Clanton, the other brakeman, the rear cars. The train left Corsicana between six and seven…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
The appellee qualified as temporary-administrator of the estate of W. L. Gilleland on June 21, 1881, and on the next day brought this action for the benefit of the mother of Gilleland, to recover, under the statute, damages alleged to have accrued through injuries by him received through the negligence of the appellant, from which he died on September 10,1880.
At the July term of the county court for Navarro county, the appellee was appointed administrator of the estate of the deceased, *407and qualified. The order appointing the appellee temporary administrator…
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