Western & A. R. v. Roberson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. This was an action by Mary M. Boberson against the Western & Atlantic Bailroad Company to recover damages for the death of her husband.
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error is the widow of Jesse (I Boberson, who was struck and killed by a passenger train of tbe Western & Atlantic Bailroad Company. The deceased was at the time attempting to cross I he track in a top buggy at a public road crossing in Hamilton county, Tenn., near OWeamauga station. The suit, was brought by defendant in error, as widow of tbe deceased, to recover damages for the death of her husband, under a statute of tbe state of Tennessee, which gives «a right of action to the widow or next of kin in such cases where the death was caused by “the…
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