McCool v. West Jersey & Seashore Railroad

The opinion of tiie court was delivered by

Tbenchakd, ,T.

This writ of error brings up for review a judgment entered upon a verdict directed for the defendant at the Camden Circuit, in an action brought to recover damages for injuries sustained in a crossing accident.

The verdict was directed for the defendant upon the ground of the plaintiff’s contributory negligence.

At the trial it appeared that the plaintiff was a young man twenty-four years of age. In the month of October, 1907, he *480was driving a light, covered delivery wagon, drawn by a slow, old horse, in an easterly direction along Kohler…