Mount Vernon-Woodberry Mills v. Little

This is an action of trespass on the case by the plaintiff, suing as the personal representative of Graves Little, deceased, under section 5696 of the Code, against the defendant for wrongfully causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. The complaint consisting of a single count, alleges that “to-wit,- on the 11th day of April, 1929, one John Craddock, an employe of the defendant, while acting within the line and scope of his said employment, unlawfully shot plaintiff’s intestate, Graves Little, with a gun or pistol, and that said gun or pistol wound was the proximate cause of the death of…