Legal Opinion
Northern Pacific Railway Company, a Corporation v. Ernest Everett
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 24, 1956No. 14795_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATHES, District Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict for $8,632.76 damages, awarded by a jury for the wrongful death of appellee’s sixteen-year-old daughter. Federal jurisdiction rests on diversity of citizenship. 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
The death of appellee’s daughter was admittedly caused by injuries sustained in a crossing collision between a 1940 Dodge panel truck which she had been driving and one of appellant’s trains. The collision occurred in mid-afternoon on a clear, dry day, at a point approximately 5 miles east of Ellensberg, Washington, where a country road…
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