Calloway v. Pennsylvania R.

NOBTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

These actions were begun in the circuit court of Brooke county, W. Va., and were removed on account of diverse citizenship, by the defendant, to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia.

The appellants, who were plaintiffs below, sought to recover damages for injuries resulting from an accident occurring at a public crossing, in the city of Wellsburg, where the railroad of the defendant crosses at grade a public street of said city. The plaintiff Scheetz was driving an automobile at the time of the accident, and plaintiff…