Lawrence v. Pennsylvania Casualty Co.

SMITH, Chief Justice.

In June, 1939, Rosella White Smith was killed as a result of a collision, in the State of Missouri, between two trucks owned and operated, respectively, by two Missouri corporations. The decedent was survived by her husband, Jake Smith, a resident of Oklahoma, and by her father, a brother' and two sisters, including Estella Lawrence a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas.

The sister, Estella Lawrence, acting for herself and her father, brother and sister, presented a claim against the owners of the trucks for the alleged wrongful death of her sister.. The truck owners…