Darby v. Henwood

This is an action to recover $10,000 under the compensation section of our death statute, Sec. 3263, R.S. 1929, Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 3371, for the death of plaintiff's husband alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendants. At the close of plaintiff's case the court gave a peremptory direction to find for defendants, and thereupon she took an involuntary nonsuit with leave to move to set the same aside. Motion to set aside was duly filed and sustained and defendants appealed.

We shall refer to the St. Louis-Southwestern Railway Company as the Cotton Belt, and to the Missouri Pacific…