Greathouse v. Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Co.

RYAN, Judge.

This suit.was instituted by H. L. Hunter, as guardian for J. D. Greathouse, a boy six years old, for the purpose of setting aside an agreed judgment and to recover damages accruing to said minor by reason of the alleged wrongful killing of his mother, Mrs. L. V. Thomas, by one of the defendant in error’s railway trains at a crossing in Iowa Park, Tex., about November 3, 1928.

It was charged that just prior to her death, Mrs. L. V. Thomas employed a drayman to move her furniture from one part of the town to another, and while crossing the railroad track on a public street, the truck…