Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Goodykoontz

Mitchell, J. —

Goodykoontz, as guardian, complains of the appellant railroad company, and charges that the death of his ward, George Lowery, a minor under the age of twenty-one years, was instantaneously caused by the negligence and wrongful conduct of the company. The only averment upon the subject of damages is, that the ward left surviving him “ a mother and sister, and. next of kin, competent to share in the distribution of the personal estate of said deceased, to whom damages enure,” and that by reason of the injury and death the ward’s estate has been damaged in the sum of ten thousand…