Camden, Gloucester & Woodbury Railway Co. v. Preston

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dayton, J.

Suit was brought by Cornelius Preston, administrator of Charles C. Purton, to recover damages for the loss which the latter’s widow and orphans sustained by his death. A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff below, and the case is brought into this court upon exceptions to the charge of the judge presiding at the trial.

*265It appeared by the evidence that the deceased was driving in an open pony wagon, after dark, from Camden to Wood-bury, on the line of the electric railway. At a point on Broadway, near the Newton creek bridge, a car, coming in…