Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Lamensdorf

Appellees, Mrs. Jennie E. Lamensdorf and her son, R.G. Lamensdorf, filed suit against appellant, the Yazoo Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, for the death of M. Lamensdorf, husband and father of appellees, which occurred at a railroad crossing where the track crosses highway 61 at Choctaw about two miles of Shaw, Miss.

The declaration charged that appellant negligently failed to keep the crossing in question and the approach thereto in such a condition as to afford a safe and convenient means of travel over same; that appellant negligently permitted houses and trees to remain near the…