Watkins v. Purnell

On October 30, 1920, L. D. Robinett, a farmer living near Kensett, White County, Arkansas, was struck and fatally injured by a locomotive engine on the Missouri Pacific Railroad and died from the effects of said injury a few hours later.

On December 10, 1920, appellant J. P. Watkins was appointed by the probate court of White County, ad-. ministrator of the estate of said L. D. Robinett, deceased, and executed and filed his administrator’s bond in the sum of $5,500, and appellants J. H. Dreener and L. E. Moore, signed the administrator’s bond as sureties.

On the same day that Watkins was…