Constantine v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad

Pee Cttbiam.

This is an appeal from a judgment recovered by the plaintiff below, in the Hudson County Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff is the administratrix ad pi-osequendum of the estate of William H. Hoelz, who was killed by a railroad train of the defendant company at a point west of what is known as the Bergen tunnel in Jersey City, New Jersey. At that point the contracting firm of Hatzel and Buehler, Incorporated, was engaged in doing some work on the electrification of the defendant railroad company. The decedent, an employe of the contracting firm, was engaged in unloading equipment…