Bishop v. Guthrie

Plaintiff-appellant’s action for damage claimed to have resulted from the wrongfully caused death of Aaron E. Bishop was tried by a jury which returned a general verdict for the defendant.

The defendant’s automobile struck the plaintiff’s decedent and fractured his leg in July, 1950. On April 11, 1952, as decedent descended from a bus he either fell or collapsed. He was assisted in arising by the bus driver, he walked a short distance then, still in obvious distress, was assisted to his nearby residence, where he died very shortly thereafter.

A physician who arrived at about the time of death…