Pecos & North Texas Railway Co. v. Suitor
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Seventh District, in an appeal from Potter County. Mrs. Suitor, joined by her children, sued the Railway Company for damages for the death of her husband. She recovered, and the judgment was affirmed on appeal by defendant (153 S. W., 185) who then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
This was an action by the widow and children, of J. J. Suitor to recover damages of the Pecos & North Texas Railway Company for the death of J. J. Suitor while engaged in the Railway Company’s service as a flagman.
The petition on which the case was tried alleged that Suitor’s death was the proximate result of negligence on the part of employees of plaintiff in error in the operation of a switch engine which ran over Suitor, such negligence consisting, among other things, in failure to give any warning of the engine’s movement over the crossing where Suitor was at work, in failure to discover…
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