Wellman v. Novak

JOHNSON, Justice.

The defendant in error, hereafter referred to as plaintiff, brought this action as the administrator of the estate of Frances R. Novak to recover for her alleged wrongful death against the defendants George W. Wellman and The Atchi-son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company. The defendant George W. Wellman will be referred to hereafter as Wellman, and his co-defendant as railway company.

The amended petition, filed in the Superior Court of Creek County, Oklahoma, alleged that the defendant Wellman, for himself and as agent for his co-defendant railway company, was operating a…