State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims

FOX, PRESIDENT:

On the night of January 26, 1940, the decedents of the several relators in the above-styled proceedings were killed when the automobile in which they were riding went over a precipitous bank near the hard-surfaced state primary highway, known and designated as State Route No. 61, leading from Deepwater to Oak Hill, in Fayette County. No person now living saw the accident.

Some time after the death of the decedents, their several administrators, relators herein, filed with the State Court of Claims separate claims each for the sum of ten thousand dollars, basing their claims on…