Ward v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

The plaintiff, in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, sued for damages on account of the death of her husband, Albert Hesse, who was killed through the alleged negligence of the defendant in operating its train. She recovered judgment June 7, 1922, for $8,000, and the defendant appealed.

Albert Hesse was killed July 7, 1921, while riding in a Ford automobile as the guest of one Otto C. Carpenter, when the latter drove across the tracks of defendant at a place called Lake Hill in St. Louis County. Lake Hill, seventeen and one-half miles west of St. Louis, on the south side of the defendant's…