Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Drumm
Decision Date | 10 March 1904 |
Citation | 32 Ind.App. 547,70 N.E. 286 |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
Parties | CLEVELAND, C., C. & ST. L. RY. CO. v. DRUMM. |
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Delaware County; Jos. G. Lefller, Judge.
Action by Enoch Drumm, as administrator, against the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Reversed.
Thompson & Thompson, for appellant. Geo. H. Koons, for appellee.
Appellee's decedent and her husband were killed in the same accident at a highway crossing. Appellee brings the statutory action, the damages to be recovered to inure to the benefit of the next of kin. Decedent left, as her next of kin, brothers and sister and a niece and nephews. The brothers and sisters, the youngest of whom is 55 years old, are married, settled in life, have homes of their own, and are the heads of families. The niece and nephews, children of a deceased sister of the decedent, lived with their father as a family, and had so lived since their mother's death. None of these next of kin depended upon decedent for pecuniary support or assistance.
The court gave, among other instructions, the following: It is not claimed that the decedent was under any legal obligation to support the next of kin for whose benefit this action was brought. The presumption that the wife and children sustain a pecuniary loss in some amount by the death of the husband and father does not obtain in a case like that at bar. For determining...
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