Doty v. Crystal Ice & Fuel Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is the second appearance of this case in this court. (118 Kan. 323, 235 Pac. 96.) It was an action by a widow and her dependent minor children for compensation for the death of her husband through an injury alleged to have been sustained in defendant’s ice factory.

Plaintiffs alleged that their husband and father, Bert Doty, on January 20, 1923, while employed in the ice plant of defendant sustained a fall from a scaffold and received an injury to his head from which he died some four months afterwards. The petition also alleged the…