Williams v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.

Plaintiffs' grown son, Melvin Harvey Williams, while asleep and/or drunk on a switch track of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company on Congo Street in the City of Monroe, Louisiana, at about the hour of 3 o'clock A.M., was seriously injured by a switch engine of the company from which injuries he died a few hours later. Plaintiffs sued the railroad company, Guy A. Thompson, trustee thereof, and Frank Jones, engineer in charge of the locomotive, for damages, against whom judgment in solido is prayed.

The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company is now and has been for several years in bankruptcy. Its…