Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. King

This is an action to recover damages for wrongful death under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. George L. King, an employee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, while in the performance of his duties, fell from the top of an oil tank tender of an engine, which resulted in his instantaneous death. The action was instituted in the district court of Grady county on December 19, 1927, by Claudia King, surviving wife and widow of said decedent, as the admin-istratrix of the estate of said decedent, against said railway company.

It appears that said decedent was a man of about…