Burton v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co.

Plaintiff is administrator of the estate of May Burton, deceased, and brought this action to recover damages on account of the death of the intestate which he charges was occasioned by the negligence of defendant’s servants. The judgment in the trial court was for the plaintiff.

It appears that deceased, a young man about twenty years of age, in company with two other young men attended a fair at Fayette, Missouri, on the 18th of August, 1911. They remained until past midnight when they started for home, a distance of perhaps fifteen miles, in a one-horse buggy. They had been drinking to…