Williams v. Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This action was one for damages resdlting from death by wrongful act. Judgment was entered against defendant, and the error assigned turns upon the propriety of substituting a Missouri administrator for a Kansas administrator as plaintiff in the action.

One Archibald Minney, a resident of Leavenworth county, was killed in Missouri through the negligence of the defendant bridge company while reconstructing a Missouri river bridge near St. Joseph. Minney had neither wife nor child, but it was shown that he was wont to contribute small sums…