Propst v. Fisher

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

The sole question in this appeal is whether the failure of the plaintiffs to comply with an Indiana statute1 requiring the filing of their claims against a *249decedent’s estate in the probate court barred them from maintaining the present actions for damages for wrongful death against the administrator of the Indiana decedent in the United States District Court in Michigan where the accident occurred and the plaintiffs and their decedents resided.

A collision between two automobiles resulted in the deaths of the three plaintiffs’ decedents riding in one car and defendant’s…