In Re Estate of Backus

Carl H. Backus, a freight train conductor in the employ of The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, was killed in the course of his employment on the 15th day of April, 1942. Mary Backus, his widow, as executrix, procured a settlement with the company in the sum of $8,000, of which the Probate Court of Licking county approved.

Thereafter, the widow applied to the same court for an order of distribution. She alleged that the decedent was survived by two sons, each over 30 years of age, but that she is the only one who suffered any pecuniary loss by reason of decedent’s death. The two sons join in…