Larimore v. Dobbs

Defendant while driving an automobile along a country road struck the plaintiff’s decedent, a pedestrian, causing injuries resulting in death. On the evidence introduced and admitted the jury found defendant driver not liable. In this appeal the plaintiff’s main contentions are that the trial court should have (1) admitted in evidence statements made by the deceased woman to members of her family in the hospital one to two weeks after the injury; (2) should not have stricken from the plaintiff’s complaint allegations as to burial expense incurred, thereby preventing proof of burial expenses…