Kirkdoffer v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

— Action for damages on account of the death of Charles Kirkdoffer, which occurred on or about September 16, 1926, near the town of Manila, in Craighead County, Arkansas.

Suit was brought in the Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri, by the administrator of Charles Kirkdoffer, under a statute of Arkansas providing that where the death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, etc., of another, where if death had not ensued the party injured would be entitled to recover in an action for damages, the person or corporation causing the ‘ death would be liable in an action notwithstanding…