Sawyer v. People's Freight Lines, Inc.

This action is prosecuted against People’s Freight Lines, Inc., and Willard Thompson, driver, for damages to the estate of Thomas S. Sawyer, alleged to have been caused by defendants negligently killing said Sawyer in an accident on the Tucson-Florence-Phoenix public highway on July 1, 1931. The complaint alleges that Sawyer died on said day at about three o’clock in the afternoon “by the wrongful act, and neglect, and default of the defendants, which wrongful act and neglect” are described (we give the substance only) as follows: That said decedent was traveling on horseback on said highway,…