Cummings v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Pee Cueiam,

The subject-matter of this action was before us in Cummings v. The Pennsylvania Railroad, 301 Pa. 39, where we reversed the court below and returned the case for a new trial because of an error in the court’s charge to the jury. The suit was brought by a decedent’s widow to recover damages for the death of her husband who. was fatally injured when one of defendant’s trains struck his horse-drawn bread wagon. The accident happened at a grade crossing in the village of Dewart, Northumberland County. Upon the retrial the jury returned a verdict of $15,000 for the widow which sum the…