Pryor v. Payne

Suit for damages for the death of husband. Plaintiff's husband, W.A. Pryor, was struck by a freight train on the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, while being operated by Walker D. Hines, Director General, on the 23rd day of November, 1919, about two o'clock in the afternoon. He died from his injuries two days afterwards. The accident occurred at the crossing of said railroad with a public highway about a mile east of the town of Ritchie in Newton County.

The petition states, in effect, that when the train was about one hundred and sixty rods distant, and the deceased had just stepped on the…