Stotler v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co.

From, a judgment rendered in the circuit court of Callaway county, Missouri, in favor of plaintiffs, defendants appeal. This suit was originally instituted in the circuit court of Audrain county on July 18, 1903. The cause was removed upon the application of the defendants Wiseman and Haines to Callaway county, where it was finally tried at the August term, 1904, of said court.

This is a suit by the minor children of Phoebe Stotler to recover statutory penalty of five thousand dollars for the wrongful lulling of their mother. The plaintiffs’ petition states, in substance, that they are minors…