Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. v. Chesher

DAVIS, Justice.

This is a suit for damages as the result of a car being hit by a train in which the driver of the car and his four children, three girls and one boy, were killed. Appel-lee-plaintiff, Jewell D. Chesher, a widow, and plaintiffs Thomas H. Chesher and Tessie Chesher, husband and wife, and father and mother of James Thomas Chesher, deceased, sued the appellant-defendant, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company. Plaintiffs, Thomas H. Chesher and Tessie Chesher, filed a disclaimer and were not awarded any damages. The collision occurred at a railroad crossing on Hamilton (Holmes)…