Wallace Ex Rel. Kreder v. St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Co.

Plaintiff, widow of Harry Wallace, deceased, sued to recover the statutory $10,000 penalty for the death of her husband, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. Upon trial there was a verdict for the defendant. The circuit court sustained plaintiff's motion for new trial and from that order the defendant appealed.

Defendant operates a passenger bus transportation system in St. Joseph, Missouri. In the afternoon of October 7, 1930, the deceased, Harry Wallace, with two other young men, was driving northward in an old Ford automobile on Twelfth Street in St. Joseph, and…