Eaton v. Wilmington City Railway Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case (No. 41, March Term, 1909), to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff on September 26, 1908, through the negligence of the defendant in so operating two of its cars on West Eighth Street in Wilmington as to cause a collision; on one of which cars plaintiff was a passenger.
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, C. J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—This is an action brought by Isaiah N. Eaton against the Wilmington City Railway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company in so running and operating its railway on September 26, 1908, as to cause a collision between two of its cars near Eighth and Monroe Streets in this City, on one of which cars the plaintiff was at the time a passenger.
There are eleven counts contained in the plaintiff’s declaration, but without undertaking to set out…
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