Ryan v. Dendinger

This is a suit for damages brought by the widow of John Joseph Ryan for herself and as tutrix of her six minor children for the death of her husband and father of her minor children, which resulted from a collision in the Tickfaw River on January 26, 1939, between defendant's steamboat Calla and a gasolene motor boat owned and operated by Joe Wild, in which the deceased was an occupant.

The case was first tried before the late Judge Hypolite Mixon, who rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $11,000, of which $2,000 was for her individually, and $1,500 for each of her six…