Jenkins v. Harper

McBRIDE, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a summary judgment in favor of United States Casualty Company dismissing plaintiff’s demands as against said defendant. From the allegations of the original and amended and supplemental petitions, it appears plaintiff’s son was killed by a railroad train; that she compromised with the railroad for $600 and executed a release of her claim in its favor. She now sues the railroad and its locomotive engineer alleging their negligence to have been the cause of her son’s death. She avers she was coerced into signing the mentioned release which is…