Fyfe v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

This appeal involves the distribution of a fund of $10,500 paid to the clerk of the district court of Hennepin county by defendant railway company as damages for the wrongful death of Mary Ellen Fyfe, which occurred in the state of North Dakota.

Plaintiff, Eobert T. Fyfe, was the husband of decedent. In his individual capacity and as special administrator of her estate, he sued the railway company for the wrongful death of his wife arising out of a train wreck on August 9, 1945, at Michigan, North Dakota. Marjory Euth Hill, a daughter of Mary Ellen Fyfe by a former…