Hillhouse v. Thompson

This case comes here on transfer from the Springfield Court of Appeals under Sec. 10, Art. V, Const. Mo. 1945. The opinion of that court is reported in 240 SW. (2d) 224, where the facts are more fully stated. The suit was for $15,000 damages finder Sec’s 537.080 and 537.090, R. S. 1949, Laws Mo. 1945, p. 846, for the alleged wrongful death of the plain tiff-respondent administratrix’s intestate, Rollie Everett Davidson.on August 26,1949, when the Ford pick-up truck which he was driving was struck by defendant-appellant’s passenger train at a rural highway grade crossing in Lawrence County. On…