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MISSOURI PACIFIC R. CO. v. LANE

No. 9447.

720 S.W.2d 830 (1986)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Marshall LANE, and Wife, Layvonne Lane, and the Estate of Marvin Ray Lane, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied November 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude R. Treece, Sewell & Riggs, Houston, for appellant.

Jim Ammerman, II, Marshall, for appellees.

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company appeals a judgment awarding appellees $373,046.39 for the wrongful death of Marvin Lane. Lane was killed when his pickup truck was struck by a Missouri Pacific freight train. The jury found that the crossing where the accident occurred was extra-hazardous, and it found Missouri Pacific negligent in failing to have an automatic signal, crossing gate or flagman at the crossing, and in failing to promptly and...

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