Schmidt v. Pennsylvania R. R.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. Action by one Schmidt against the Pennsylvania Railroad. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
The plaintiff, a boy some eight and a half years old, was injured while crossing the tracks of the defendant company between the cars of a parted freight train, at a point intermediate between certain streets in the city of Newark. The place where the accident occurred was the center of a city block or square, across which the defendant company has two tracks, running north and! south, and extending to a freight yard a short distance beyond. The land on the east side of the tracks, within the square, is entirely vacant, and nearly so on the west side; and on the east…
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