Brawley v. Esterly

.VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

This action was instituted by plaintiffs', minors, for the wrongful death of their father, Willard Brawley, who was fatally injured or burned in the cab of the westbound tractor-trailer when or after the combination motor vehicle had collided with the eastbound DeSoto automobile driven by defendant’s decedent Samuel H. Ward. The collision occurred about seven o’clock in the morning of December 22, 1950, on a long, sweeping curve in U. S. Highway 166 about one and a half miles east of Sarcoxie. Both defendant’s decedent and his wife were fatally injured. No eye witness…