Susemiehl v. Red River Lumber Co.

Walter Susemiehl was injured on September 7,1938 in an automobile collision and as a direct and proximate result of those injuries died October 31, 1938. Two suits were thereafter commenced in the circuit court of Kane county by his administrator against appellees, one of which was to recover under the wrongful death statute for the pecuniary loss resulting to decedent’s next of kin and the instant proceeding brought under the survival statute to recover medical and hospital expenses incurred by the deceased and for which his estate would be liable between the date of the accident and the…