In re Burke

Savarese, S.

The application for permission to compromise a cause of action for decedent’s wrongful death is granted. The compromise with the insurance carrier is also approved and its share in the recovery may be paid directly to it. The law applicable to the distribution of the proceeds remains to be determined.

Decedent was a resident of this State at the time of his death on January 31, 1946, when the airplane on which he was a passenger crashed into Elk Mountain near Cheyenne, Wyoming. He left a widow and two infant children surviving. "Under section 88-4001 of the Wyoming Revised Statutes…