McCoy v. Millville Traction Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Tkeitohabd, J.

The plaintiff’s intestate, Thomas 0. McCoy, boarded defendant’s trolley ear at Millville about seven o’clock Christmas night, 1908. He was so drunk that he had to be helped aboard of the car. He was bound for Vineland, several miles away, where he lived. At first, he sat on a rear scat, and then went out on the rear platform where he stood “with his back to the dash and his arm on the controller.” Meanwhile the car had proceeded about one mile out into the open country over the single track road which runs in a northerly direction on the…