Pennsylvania Co. v. Clark
Indiana Supreme Court
From Starke Circuit Court; William C. Pentecost, Judge. Action by Melvin Clark, administrator, against the Pennsylvania Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals. (Transferred from the Appellate Court under §1399 Burns 1914, Acts 1901 p. 569.)
1Opinion of the CourtEwbank, C. J.
Appellee recovered a judgment against the appellant for negligently causing the death of his decedent, who, on May 31, 1916, was struck by a passenger train running on appellant’s double track railroad, at a street crossing in the town of Donaldson, while riding a motorcycle.
The undisputed evidence was that he was a minor, but lacked less than five months of being twenty-one years old. There was evidence tending to prove and from which the jury might have inferred that a freight train had just passed going east, when the deceased reached the crossing; that he approached the crossing from the…
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