Whitehead Coal Mining Co. v. Pinkston

Opinion by

GALBRAITH, C.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court overruling a demurrer to a petition in an action for damages for wrongful death. The petition, omiittting the caption, reads as follows:

“John Pinkston, father of Claude Pinks-ton, deceased, plaintiff, complaining of the Whitehead Coal Mining Company, a corporation, defendant, represents:

“(1) Thait on the 5'tih day of September, A. D. 1915, one Claude Pinkston, a single son of the plaintiff’s, was killed by reason of the negligence of the defendant, the White-hejad Coal Mining Company, a corporation, and that no…