Clark v. Lake Erie & Western Railroad

Jesse C. Beeves, a resident of Tipton, Indiana, and an employee of the Lake Erie & Western Bailroad Company, in the capacity of locomotive fireman, was killed in a train collision, October 15, 1922. On October 23, 1922, Louis J. Bremer, public administrator of Vermilion county, filed a petition in the probate court setting forth that Jesse C. Beeves died intestate in Vermilion county on October 15, 1922, and that he left as personal property a cause of action for his death against the Lake Erie & Western Bailroad Company, and that the petitioner was informed and believed that the decedent…