Ferris, Receivers v. Jones, Adm'x
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Oourt, Pontotoc County; J. W. Bolen, Judge. Action by Mrs. Bessie Jones to recover damages from H. C. Ferris and Alexander New, as receivers of tlie Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company, for the negligent death of her husband, W. E. Jones. Judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $15,000, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.
In this opinion the plaintiffs in error will be referred to as defendants, and the defendant in error will be referred to as plaintiff; they so appearing in the trial court.
This suit was instituted by plaintiff in an individual capacity against the defendants for the negligent death of W. E. Jones, deceased, who on April 15, 1916, was killed at Hoffman, Oklahoma, by an explosion of a locomotive boiler of defendants of which he was fireman. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants were negligent in this, that the boiler which the deceased was firing was in a weakened and unsafe condition, and…
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