Towns v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The present action is brought by a father and mother for damages for an injury to their son, James Towns, inflicted by the cars of the defendant company and resulting in his death.

*631The facts are substantially as follows :

James Towns was in the employ of the defendant company as brakesman, on a construction train. At a certain point known as Russtou Station, there were certain idle cars on the track which the conductor had received orders to remove to a side-track in order to make room for an approaching passenger train. At about dark in the…