Griffith v. Delico Meats Products Co.

This is an action under the compensatory section of our death statute, Sec. 3263, R.S. 1929, Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 3371, for damages for the death of plaintiff's wife, Edith Griffith, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant's truck driver. Verdict and judgment for $10,000 went for plaintiff and defendant appealed.

Mrs. Griffith received fatal injuries January 27, 1938, when the car in which she was riding as a guest was struck by defendant's truck on the intersection of 27th Street, an east and west street, and Troost Avenue, a north and south street, in Kansas City, Missouri.…