Keaton v. Transit Casualty Co.

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a suit for wrongful death resulting from an automobile-truck collision *485filed by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Keaton against Lee E. Jones, the driver of the truck, his employer, Freiler Industries, Inc., and its insurer, Transit Casualty Company of St. Louis. The defendants pled the negligence of Mrs. Mattie Brown, the owner of the vehicle in which the plaintiffs’ children were guest passengers and the driver of the said vehicle. The Keatons subsequently compromised their claim against Mattie W. Brown. The Lower Court awarded a judgment in favor of petitioners against Freiler…