Jordan v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kenosha-county: E. B. Beldest, Circuit Judge. It is conceded that the plaintiff’s intestate was killed in the county of Kenosha, January 23, 1904, while in the employ of the defendant as a section laborer.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kenosha-county: E. B. Beldest, Circuit Judge. It is conceded that the plaintiff’s intestate was killed in the county of Kenosha, January 23, 1904, while in the employ of the defendant as a section laborer. January 26, 1904, the plaintiff filed his verified petition in the county court of’ tliat county, wherein he represented, in effect, that he was the public administrator of that county; that the deceased died in the town of Pleasant Prairie, in that county, January 23, 19M, intestate; that he died possessed of certain personal property not…
1Opinion of the Court
Oassoday, O. J.
Under the stipulation entered into on the-trial, the only question here for consideration is whether the plaintiff was lawfully appointed administrator of the estate-of the deceased and had the legal right to bring this action. There is no claim that the plaintiff should have been appointed such administrator by reason of being one of the persons referred to in sec. 3807, Stats. 1898, nor that the notice-prescribed in sec. 3808 of the Statutes was ever given. The-plaintiff claims, and the trial court in effect found, that the-appointment was properly and regularly made by the…
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