Deninger et ux. v. American Locomotive Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Action by August Deninger and another against the American Locomotive Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Circuit Judge.
Suit was brought in the court below by the plaintiffs in error, under a statute of- the state of Pennsylvania (Act April 26, 1855 [P. R. 309]) which provides that the “persons entitled *25to recover damages for any injury causing death, shall be,” among others, the “parents of the deceased.”
The statement of claim avers that the plaintiffs’ son, August Deninger, Jr., aged 20 years and 5 months, was, at the time of the injury thereinafter stated, and had been for a long time prior thereto, employed by the defendant as an apprentice in the defendant’s locomotive works and…
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