Hughes v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 26th day of March, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of March, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
This action was for the death of plaintiffs’ son, who was killed at defendant’s railroad crossing on East Lloyd street in the city of Shenandoah, Schuylkill county, Penn., on August 18, 1915. The plaintiffs as parents claim damages under the death statute of Pennsylvania passed June 7, 1911.* Without change of residence from Shenandoah, but after a brief sojourn in Bayonne in New Jersey, the mother, first suing alone, began this action in the Supreme Court of this State for the county of Westchester. Afterwards the father was joined as a coplaintiff. (See Benyak v. Lehigh Coal &…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Benyak v. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- Stenger v. Buffalo Union Furnace Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905