Rice v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.

DORE, Judge.

This is a suit to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of Robert Rice, who died from injuries received when struck by defendant’s train while he was lying in a drunken stupor on defendant’s railroad track in the City of DeQuincy, at about 1:25 A. M., July 2, 1938. The suit is brought by the decedent’s widow on behalf of herself and their four minor children, one of the children being emancipated by marriage, though less than eighteen years of age.

The lower court rendered judgment in favor of the widow in her own right in the amount of $3,000, plus $1,500 on behalf of…