Hilliard v. Southern Kansas Stage Lines Co.

*289The opinion of the court was delivered by

Allen, J.:

This was an action brought by J. M. Hilliard and Mrs. J. M. Hilliard, his wife, for damages for the wrongful death of their daughter, Bonnie Hilliard. Plaintiffs recovered a verdict in the sum of $4,500, which upon a motion for a new trial was reduced to $4,000 by remittitur, and defendants have brought this appeal.

It was alleged in plaintiffs’ petition that on the 9th day of July, 1935, about 11 o’clock p. m., Fred Rierson and Bonnie Hilliard in a Ford coupé were driving in a northerly direction on U. S. highway No. 77 between Augusta and…