Bailey v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 88, Jan. T., 1908, by plaintiff, from order off O. P. .Bradford Co., Feb. T., 1906, Mo. 10, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Mahala Bailey v. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband. The facts relating to the accident are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was order refusing to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
The plaintiff is the widow of Ambrose Bailey who was killed on December 6,1904, on the defendant’s road about two miles west of Wyalusing borough, Bradford county. For five years prior to his death, the deceased was in the employ of the defendant company as a track repair man, and lived a few rods from the defendant’s tracks, and about three miles west of Wyalusing. When engaged at his work he would usually report for duty at the company’s tool house near Wyalusing, and when his day’s work was ended, he would go to the tool house and was there discharged. It…
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