Ebert v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

William Steinbrink, an unmarried minor, fifteen years of age, whose parents were dead, was injured by one of defendant’s street cars striking and overturning a grocery wagon in which he was riding. He died as a result of his injuries, and his executrix instituted this suit under section 5425, Revised Statutes of Missouri 1909. She obtained judgment and defendant has appealed.

The lad had started to work that morning for a grocer, and, in company with Bert Hosman, a man who drove the grocer’s delivery, went to a livery stable to get the horse and wagon with which groceries were delivered. This…