Smith v. McDaniel

This is an action wherein plaintiff Stephen M. Smith, as executor of the estate of Ann J. Smith, his deceased wife, seeks damages for her alleged wrongful death in an automobile collision; and further, for injuries to his minor son Jimmie, as his guardian ad litem.

The action arose out of a collision between an automobile operated by the decedent and an automobile operated by defendant Dan R. McDaniel, on a portion of the Patterson-Prosser Highway, State Highway No. 8, in a farming area known as “Horse Heaven,” in Benton county. On the morning of November 10, 1955, at about eleven o’clock, the…