Bloomchamp v. Mo. Pac. R.R. Co.

This is an action for wrongful death. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment in the sum of $3,000 and defendant has appealed.

The suit is brought by the administrator of Sophia Zimmerschied who was killed at defendant's railroad crossing, a short distance from Otterville, in Cooper county, Missouri, on the 9th day of January, 1921. She was riding in the rear seat of an automobile being driven by her brother. One of defendant's trains running at the rate of seventy-five miles per hour struck the automobile at the crossing, killing the three occupants of the car. The negligence relied upon…