Graves v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

YAN OSDOL, C.

Action for $10,000 for the death of America V. Graves, which occurred October 19, 1947, at'Carpenter Crossing, about three and three-fourths miles west of La Plata, when the 1926 Model. T. Ford automobile in which she was riding as a guest of-her son, Everett Graves, was struck by defendant Railway Company’s westbound passenger train of eight coaches drawn by an oil-burning steam engine.

Plaintiff’s case was submitted to-the jury under the penalty section (Section 3652 R. S. 1939, Mo. R. S. A. § 3652) of the Wrongful Death Act on alleged statutory and common-law negligence in…