Patton v. Wabash Railway Co.

This is an action in damages instituted by plaintiff against defendant for the alleged negligent killing of her seventeen-year-old son, B'rnest L. Davidson, whose dead body was found on defendant’s right of way in Adair county, Mo., near the north end of a trestle in defendant’s track. The dteeeased had been living with his mother, plaintiff herein, on a farm near the village of Millard in said county.

Defendant’s track runs in a general northwest and southeast direction from the town of La Plata in Macon county, through the village of Millard to the city of Kirksville and beyond. Millard is…