Duane v. Pennsylvania R. R. Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

This appeal from judgment entered for defendant non obstante veredicto is brought by plaintiff, who instituted suit to recover damages for the death of her son, Thomas Duane, a lieutenant in the fire department of the City of Philadelphia.

In the course of his duty, decedent was called with other members of his company to extinguish a fire in a wooden structure in connection with defendant’s “high line bridge,” where it crosses above the elevated trolley tracks on Market Street at 31st Street in the City of Philadelphia. While so engaged, he received an…