Russell v. Dayton Coal & Iron Co.

*45Joseph. Miller was killed December 20, 1895, by an explosion in one of the defendant’s mines near Dayton, Tenn. He left no widow, but two children, Lillie and John Miller, both minors. These children, by next friend, brought an action in the federal court at Knoxville for damages for the death of their father. To the declaration filed in that suit the company pleaded the general issue, illegitimacy of the plaintiffs, and that the cause of action had been compromised with Wm. Dryman, as administrator of Joseph Miller, for the sum of $125. The validity of this compromise and its binding force…