Jeffries v. Farmers Union Co-operative Mercantile & Elevator Co.

*787The opinion of the court wa's delivered by

Burch, J.:

The plaintiff as widow sued for damages for the death of her husband, occasioned by wrongful act of the defendant. The defendant pleaded a settlement with hep, by the terms of which she agreed not to sue if the defendant paid her husband’s debts, which the defendant did, in the sum of about $5,000. A demurrer was sustained to this defense. On appeal the defendant devoted a single paragraph of its brief to the ruling, the substance of which was that if the plaintiff could sue and recover in her own right, it would be hard to see why she would…