Goodson v. Schwandt

Plaintiff, the widow of Frank Goodson, basing her action on Section 4217, Revised Statutes 1919, sued for damages for the death of her husband, who was struck and fatally injured on March 12, 1923, by a truck driven by Walter Schwandt on Seventeenth Street in the city of St. Louis, and died from said injuries a few days thereafter. Plaintiff had a verdict and judgment for $9,000 against both of the defendants and they appealed.

The petition contains several assignments of negligence, but the case was tried on the humanitarian theory.

The defendant Schwandt, an employee of the Electric Company,…