Lockhart v. Lichtenthaler
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case brought by Sarah C. Lichtenthaler, widow of John Liehtenthaler, deceased, and Amanda, Jane, and William David Liehtenthaler, minor children of said deceased, by their next friend William Kennedy, against Charles Lockhart and William Erew, to recover damages for causing the death of John Liehtenthaler.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case brought by Sarah C. Lichtenthaler, widow of John Liehtenthaler, deceased, and Amanda, Jane, and William David Liehtenthaler, minor children of said deceased, by their next friend William Kennedy, against Charles Lockhart and William Erew, to recover damages for causing the death of John Liehtenthaler. The suit was brought under the provisions of the Act of April 15th 1857. The deceased was employed as a brakesman upon certain coal-cars owned by Dickson, Stewart & Co., which were being run over the Allegheny Yalley…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, February 25th 1864, by
Thompson, J.
This was an action against the defendants
below by the widow and children of John Lichtenthaler, under the Acts of Assembly of 1851-55, to recover damages for occasioning his death by negligence. The allegations in substance are, that the workmen or servants of the defendants, in and about their business, so carelessly and negligently conducted themselves, in placing certain oil casks so near the track of the Allegheny Yalley Railroad, that a portion of the train of cars on which the deceased was at the time a passenger…
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