Levins v. Vigne

* NOTE: Opinion filed at September Term, 1935, April 23, 1936; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled at September Term, 1936, November 12, 1936. The plaintiff herein is the widow of Lawrence Levins, deceased, and as such brought this action, under the wrongful death statute, for damages on account of the death of her husband alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant in the operation of an automobile. In the early morning hours of January 1, 1932, defendant was driving his automobile along Page Avenue in St. Louis County. Levins was prostrate in the center of the street…