White v. Chicago So. Transportation Co.

Jack White and others, the next of kin and heirs at law of Willie C. White, deceased, sned Chicago Southern Transportation Company, a Corporation, and its driver, Gilbert Brown, to recover damages for the death of the deceased. The jury found a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiffs appealed.

The death resulted from a collision, on November 24, 1952, between a northbound truck, driven by Brown, and an eastbound pickup truck, in which Willie C. White, 13 years of age, was riding, and which was driven by his father, Jack White. The collision occurred in the Town of Scooba, in the…