Stanford v. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.

This suit is by the legal representative of á minor child, and seeks to recover damages for the death of said minor caused by injuries .sustained by the mother of said child while alighting from one of the defendants’ trains through the negligence of an agent or servant of the defendant; if being charged that the mother was quick with child, the intestate, that the birth of the said child was premature, though it lived several days after its premature birth, and died' as a result of injuries sustained while in its mother’s womb.

By a legal fiction or indulgence, a legal personality is imputed…