Talbert v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

Clyde Lillard was killed on the eighth day of January, 1914, while in the service of the defendant company, through the negligence, it is alleged, of the defendant. The action is in two1 counts, the first for damages accruing to the mother of the deceased, and the second for damages on account of conscious suffering of Lillard after his injury and before his death. On a trial in February, 1927, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, the plaintiff recovered judgment for $4096.80 on the first count, and for $18,000 on the second count. The trial court required the plaintiff to remit $8000 from…