Texas N. O. R. Co. v. Pearson

On the 19th day of December, 1916, the plaintiff, Mrs. Sallie Pearson, was seriously injured, and her husband, J. M. Pearson, was killed in a railroad crossing accident at the Englewood crossing on the line of the defendant railway company about 3 miles east of Houston. Her cause of action was grounded upon the following acts of negligence, duly pleaded by her, all of which were submitted to the jury:(1) That the passenger train which struck the automobile in which plaintiff and her husband were riding was running at an excessive and dangerous rate of speed as it approached the crossing.(2)…