Jackson v. Dobbs

This is a suit by a son to recover from his mother his distributive share of a fund which she received, by way of compromise, for the wrongful death of her husband and his father.

Paul Baxter Jackson was accidentally killed on August 23, 1915, while engaged in the performance of his duties as an employee of the Casey-TIedges Company. He was survived by his widow, the defendant, Bessie E. A. Jackson, who subsequently remarried, and by an only child, the complainant, Clarence V. Jackson.

On August the 31st, 1915, the defendant, acting for herself as widow, and for the complainant, as only child,…