Mr. Justice Harlan delivered the opinion of the court. Plaintiffs in error, the widow and child of W. C. Hough, deceased, seek in this- action to recover against the Texas and, Pacific Railway Company damages, compensatory and exemplary, on account of his death, which occurred in 1874, while he was in its employment as an engineer. In…
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