Daly v. Pryor

Plaintiff, the wife of James Daly, deceased, brought this action alleging that defendant negligently caused his death. The jury found for plaintiff in the sum of three thousand ($3,000) dollars.

The facts show that during the month of August, 1913, James Daly, accompanied by his daughter-in-law, was a passenger on one of defendant’s trains from Kansas City, Missouri, to Ottumwa, Iowa. Daly and his companion changed trains at Moberly, Missouri, about 1:30 A. M. of the night of August 4, 1913. That part of the train upon which the deceased traveled north from Moberly consisted of two sleepers…