Hicks v. Simonsen

On August 17, 1921, Clifford J. Hicks and Lillard Hicks, his wife, filed in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County, Missouri, an action for $10,000 damages against N.K. Simonsen, doing business as Simonsen's Pie Bakery, on account of the alleged injury and death of plaintiffs' infant child, Betty Hicks.

On November 16, 1921, a first amended petition was filed, on which the cause was tried. It alleges in substance that the plaintiffs are the natural father and mother of Betty Hicks, deceased, who was at the time of her death, hereafter mentioned, a single and unmarried infant five years of age;…