Texas & N. O. R. v. Ewing

GRAVES, L

The appellees, Mrs. Ewing and minor daughter, Katherine, recovered of appellant an aggregate of $24,500 in damages, as for its negligence in proximately causing the death of their husband and father, E. S. Ewing, whose body was completely cut in two underneath one of its passenger trains at or near its station in the town of Navasota about 1 o’clock on the night of August 23,1929; the remains — severed at the waist — were found lying face downward right near the water crane alongside appellant’s track, south of where the Santa Fé railroad crossed it, the upper portion being inside…