Herrell v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

The plaintiffs sue for the wrongful death of their son Roy Heriell, an unmanned minor, asking the $10,000 penalty allowed by Section 4217, Revised Statutes 1919. The son was an able-bodied young man over nineteen years old, living with his parents and working on their farm in Jefferson County. In January, 1924, he was driving his father in the latter’s Ford coupe to a nearby town where the father intended to pay his taxes. The automobile was struck by one of the defendant’s freight trains at a public highway crossing in the unincorporated village of Imperial, and as a result the son received…