Hercules Powder Co. v. Crawford

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action brought to recover damages for wrongful death under the statutes of Kansas, Sec. 60-3203, G.S.Kan. 1935, as amended by Laws of Kansas 1939, c. 233, § 2, pp. 467, 468; Sec. 60-3204, G.S. Kan. 1935. The parties will be referred to as designated in the trial court.

Plaintiff, suing for the benefit of herself and her minor children, is the widow of Harry E. Crawford, who at the time of his death was an employee of the defendant at the Sunflower Ordnance Works, in Johnson County, Kansas. Harry E. Crawford was burned to death February 22, 1945, while asleep…