Jones v. Womack

While riding in an automobile driven by J. P. Womack in the State of Mississippi, Theodore Evans was killed when the car plunged over an embankment. J. P. Womack also was killed. Within less than a year after the death of Womack and within less than a year after his widow qualified as executrix of his estate, Maude Jones, the mother of Theodore Evans, brought suit against the executrix in Fulton County, Georgia, the residence of the executrix, for damages on account of the death of Evans, alleging that his death was caused by the negligence of Womack. The petition set out a statute of…