Gentry v. Southern Pacific Company

449 S.W.2d 527 (1969)

Opal GENTRY, Appellant,

v.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, Appellee.

No. 507.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

December 31, 1969.

Rehearing Denied January 22, 1970.

Cullen, Mallette, Maddin, Edwards & Williams, Harry Maddin, Victoria, Larkin T. Thedford, Edna, for appellant.

Anderson, Smith & Null, Joseph P. Kelly, Victoria, for appellee.

OPINION

GREEN, Chief Justice.

Separate suits were filed in the district court of Jackson County by Mrs. Opal Gentry and Mrs. Velma Eloise Stanley against defendants Southern Pacific Company and E. R. Weitzel, engineer of the train in…