Hooper v. Railroad

This is a suit to recover damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff’s intestate, J. W. Lebow, on January 15, 1897, was run over and killed by one of defendant’s trains. The suit of’the administrator was originally brought July 8, 1897, in the Circuit Court of Knox County, to recover $20,000 damages. The declaration was filed November 15, 1897, alleging that complainant, as administrator, brought the suit for the benefit of Mariah Lebow, the mother of deceased, as his next of kin and distributee. Thereupon the defendant-company, on the same day, removed the cause, on the ground of nonresidence,…