MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. SALAZAR

No. 16970.

254 F.2d 847 (1958)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Elena SALAZAR et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Gilbert Sharpe, Sharpe, Cunningham & Garza, Brownsville, Tex., for appellant.

William E. York, McAllen, Tex., Ben S. Hardy, Brownsville, Tex. (Ewers, Cox & Toothaker, McAllen, Tex., of counsel), for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This appeal from a judgment in a suit for death damages resulting from a crossing collision presents two questions for decision.

One of these is whether the answers of the jury, "Yes" and "It was" to Special Issues 14 and 15, respectively,1 are so inconsistent with, indeed contradictory of their answers to other issues answered in defendant's favor, and also so...

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