Pennsylvania Railroad v. Zebe
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Westmoreland county. This was an action on the case by Nicholas Zebe and Elizabeth his wife, against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to recover compensation for the death of their son Peter Zebe, who was killed on the defendant’s railroad.
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Error to the District Court of Westmoreland county. This was an action on the case by Nicholas Zebe and Elizabeth his wife, against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to recover compensation for the death of their son Peter Zebe, who was killed on the defendant’s railroad. In September 1856, Nicholas Zebe and his son Peter, aged twelve years, took passage in the cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, from Irwin’s Station, in Westmoreland county, to Brinton’s Station, in Allegheny county. On arriving at the latter point, the plaintiff and his son, instead of alighting on the platform…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
This was an action, brought by defendants in error and plaintiffs below, against the railroad company, for negligently causing the death of their son, whom, with his father, they had conveyed in their cars from Irwin’s Station, in Westmoreland county, to Brinton’s Station, in Allegheny county, where he was killed on the track of the company’s road by being run oyer by the train going east. The gravamen of the charge in the plaintiff’s narr. is, that “ the company did not use due care, diligence, and skill in allowing the said Peter Zebe…
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