Heuchert v. State Industrial Accident Commission

In considering both the motion of defendant for an order of abatement and a mandate directing the circuit court to quash and dismiss the original action, and the propriety of permitting the administratrix of the estate of the original plaintiff, now deceased, to be substituted as plaintiff herein, we are called upon to determine whether the record reflects a chose in action which survives the death of the original plaintiff.

It was argued that, inasmuch as the statute renders such a claim as the one under consideration nonassignable it is not subject to revival upon the death of claimant.…