Willis v. Mo. Pac. R'y Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Eichard Maltbie.
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.—
This is a suit by Mrs. Dora Willis against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to recover damages for the negligent killing of her husband, who was a brakeman at the time in the service of the company.
The appellee operated a line of railroad running through the Indian Territory into Texas, and had an office and an agent in Gray-son county, in this state, in which county this suit was brought. The petition alleged that the injury and the death consequent upon it occurred in the Indian Territory; that the plaintiff and the deceased were residents of Texas at the time;…
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