Helgeson Ex Rel. Helgeson v. Powell

This is an action to recover damages for the wrongful killing of one Harold Helgeson. The pertinent facts are substantially as follows:

During the late evening of April 25, 1932, at the home of respondent, Jesse H. Jackson, deputy sheriff of Fremont .county, two girls reported to him that a man wearing white corduroy trousers and a blue coat was following them. When Jackson made inquiry as to what the man had done, one girl replied, “It is too terrible to tell.” The girls pointed out the man who was then about half a block away. Jackson told the girls to go on. home and that he would follow…