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MISSOURI PAC. R. CO. v. THOMAS

No. 8169.

579 S.W.2d 46 (1979)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Elenor G. THOMAS et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Motion for Rehearing Overruled March 29, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. S. Pipkin, John G. Bissell, Beaumont, for appellant.

Alto V. Watson, Kaye Sexton, Beaumont, for appellees.

DIES, Chief Justice.

On the night of November 25, 1975, Mary Ann Leger was driving on FM 1006 in Orange County, Texas. In the car as her passenger was her sister, Helen Thomas. Near the DuPont plant, two tracks of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (Railroad) cross this road. A train was occupying one of these crossings slowly backing south into the DuPont plant when the car driven by Mary Ann Leger drove into and under a tank car of the train, killing both ladies...

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