Maiorano v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. The facts are stated in the opinion. The claim of plaintiff in error is based not alone upon the treaty with Italy, but upon the treaty and the Pennsylvania statute. The error committed in the Pennsylvania court was by wrongly interpreting the meaning of this treaty and its effect upon the Pennsylvania law. Deni v. Penna. R. R.} 181 Pa. St. 521. The purpose and effect of fatal accidents acts is to protect human life.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. The facts are stated in the opinion. The claim of plaintiff in error is based not alone upon the treaty with Italy, but upon the treaty and the Pennsylvania statute. The error committed in the Pennsylvania court was by wrongly interpreting the meaning of this treaty and its effect upon the Pennsylvania law. Deni v. Penna. R. R.} 181 Pa. St. 521. The purpose and effect of fatal accidents acts is to protect human life. Stewart v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 168 U. S. 445; Mulhall v. Fallon, 176 Massachusetts,. 266; Kellyville Coal Co. v.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moody
The husband of the plaintiff in error was killed while a passenger on a train by the negligence of the defendant. The death occurred within the State of Pennsylvania, and this action was .brought in a court'of that State to recover damages for it.. The plaintiff was a resident of Italy and a subject of the King of Italy. By the statutory law of the State of Pennsylvania (Act of April 15, 1851, P. L. 669, pars. 18 and 19, as amended by the Act of April 26, 1855, P. L. 309, par. 1), the right to recover damages for death occasioned by unlawful violence or negligence is in certain cases…
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