Slusher v. Weller

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

In August, 1907, Robert Pearce, a brakeman on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad was killed in a tunnel. He left surviving him his widow, Sally Pearce, who was then twenty years old and an infant child. Some propositions were made by the railroad company to settle the claim for his death and $2,000 was offered. In this condition of things, the widow, Sally Pearce, went with her uncle, Robert Goodin, to the office of N. J. Weller, an attorney at Pineville, to consult him. They proposed to have Robert Goodin qualify as administrator, and…