Fischer v. Megan

This is an action by plaintiff, Kathryn F. Fischer, administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Hermán *421J. Fischer, to recover from the defendant, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, $100,000 in damages for alleged negligence causing his death.

At St. Edward, Nebraska, Herman J. Fischer became a gratuitous guest on the driver’s seat in the cab of a motor truck. The truck was loaded with cattle for the market at Omaha and was in charge of Lawrence Kleve, the driver. When he arrived from the west at the south end of Rivett Siding, near Omaha, on Maple street where it crosses…