Seviour's Admr. v. Rutland Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the April Term, 1913, Windham County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
Mrs. Seviour, the plaintiff’s intestate, and her sister, Miss Hazen, while riding in a light open wagon drawn by *109one horse, with Miss Hazen driving, were killed by a north-bound train of the defendant at the first crossing north of Chester station. Mrs. Seviour was twenty-two years of age, and had been married four years, during the last two of which she had lived about a mile from the crossing, in the south part of the village, ón the west side of the railroad. Until her marriage she lived with her parents a few rods from the crossing, on the easterly' side of the track. Miss Hazen was a…
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