Ault v. Cowan
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 134, April T., 1902, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1899, No. 100, on verdict for plaintiff in case of David V. Ault and Etura K. Ault, his wife, against K. Cowan and Oscar G. Murray, Receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries.
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Appeal, No. 134, April T., 1902, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., May T., 1899, No. 100, on verdict for plaintiff in case of David V. Ault and Etura K. Ault, his wife, against K. Cowan and Oscar G. Murray, Receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before McClung, J. At the trial it appeared that on the evening of December 21, 1898, the plaintiff was injured while traveling as a passenger on one of defendant’s trains. The circumstances of the accident are…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The plaintiffs in this action claimed to recover damages from the receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for *621injuries received by Etura K. Ault while traveling as a passenger on a regular train of the defendants, who “ so carelessly and negligently operated said car, train, other cars, tracks and railway yards of said company then and there being operated by them, that as the said train and car upon which the said Etura K. Ault was then being carried, a certain torpedo signal or other explosive device, then and there under the control and management of said…
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- Thomas v. Phila. & Reading R. R.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
- Alexander v. Pennsylvania Water Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
- Howard Express Co. v. WileSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
- Reese v. Clark, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Alleghany County1892
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