Legal Opinion

Newark Electric Light & Power Co. v. Garden

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided November 30, 1896No. 9PublishedCited by 25 opinions

! In Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the District of New Jersey.

1Opinion of the Court

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought in the circuit ■court for the district of New Jersey by the administrator of the estate of James A. Mason against the Newark Electric Light & Power Company, for causing, by its negligence, the death of Mason. There were a verdict and a judgment for the plaintiff, and thereupon the defendant sued out this writ of error. The usual defenses were set up in the court below. Negligence on the part of the defendant was denied, and contributory negligence on the part of the deceased .was. asserted; but upon these subjects, considered separately and apart…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Union Pacific Railway Co. v. McDonaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. Rodgers v. LeesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
  3. Schilling v. AbernethySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
  4. Western Union Tel. Co. v. ThornCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1894

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Rollestone v. Cassirer & Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1907
  2. Geismann v. Missouri-Edison Electric Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1903
  3. Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n v. ComptonArizona Supreme Court · 1932
  4. Mitchell v. Raleigh Electric Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1901
  5. City of Shreveport v. Southwestern Gas & Electric Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1919

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