Public Service Co. of Ind. v. Schneider's Adm'r

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner — ■

Reversing.

The appeals are from two judgments of $2,995 each, rendered in the joint trial of suits for damages by the administrator of the estates of Albert Schneider and his wife, Margaret Schneider, on account of their respective deaths resulting from the headon collision of an automobile with a street car of the appellant. The accident occurred in New Albany, Ind., about 9 o’clock in the evening of March 6, 1932. The verdicts were for the amounts claimed in the respective petitions.

The specific negligence charged is that the defendant operated…