Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Vance

Citations

• 64 Kan. 686
• 68 P. 606
• 1902 Kan. LEXIS 262

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Evidence — Certificate of Probate Judge — Death of Railway Employee. Where a widow, as next of kin of a deceased employee of a railway company, sues such company for negligently causing the death of her late husband, and alleges that no administrator upon his estate has been appointed, which averment is denied by the answer of the defendant, a certificate of the probate judge of the county wherein deceased in his lifetime was a resident is not admissible to prove that “no administrator has ever been appointed by said court” or that “there is no record in said ' court of any administration for or in behalf of deceased.”</p>