Central Surety & Ins. Corporation v. Murphy

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

These are three separate suits to recover damages growing out of a collision of an automobile and a truck which took place at about 10:30 o’clock at night on a public highway in Kansas. Robert L. Harmison, Paul Parker, and Earl Wood, young men in their early twenties, were in the automobile. It crashed into the rear of a truck owned by R. D. Partridge and insured by Central Surety and Insurance Corporation. Harmison was killed instantly; Parker died a few hours later; and Wood suffered serious bodily injuries. The surviving widow of Harmison, a minor, by next friend,…