Hillyard v. National Dairy Products Corp.

ENOCH, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Martin E. Hillyard, Surviving Husband and Administrator of the Estate of Alma Mae Hillyard, Deceased, has taken this appeal from summary judgment for the defendants-appellees, National Dairy Products Corporation, Incorporated in Delaware, and Billy Frank Morris, entered in the District Court on the ground that plaintiff-appellant had no standing in the District Court.

Mr. Hillyard brought action in the District Court under the Illinois Wrongful Death Statute to recover damages for the wrongful death of Alma Mae Hill-yard on October 9, 1958, allegedly…