Sowers v. Virginian Railway Co.

Woods, Judge:

This action was instituted by an administratrix to recover for the. wrongful death of her decedent while in the employment of defendant company. After all of the evidence, both for the plaintiff and defendant, was introduced, the court, on motion of defendant, instructed the jury to find for the de fendant. Judgment was entered thereon, and plaintiff now prosecutes this writ of error.

A. W. Sowers, decedent, during his employment by the defendant company (which covered a period of three years) as a “pipe fitter”, was, in February, 1921, adjudged insane and committed to the asylum…