Legal Opinion
Matter of Estate of Fields
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided August 7, 1979No. 40307PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SATZ, Judge.
This cause was tried before the trial court without a jury. The facts are not in dispute.
In 1972, the Probate Court of St. Louis County appointed Olive Fields the executrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Elbert C. Fields. Subsequently, as her deceased husband’s personal representative, she filed suit in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, under the Illinois Wrongful Death Act against the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company for the wrongful death of her husband, which had occurred in Illinois. She lost that cause at trial and on…
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