Erie R. v. Schmidt
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Thomas G. Haight, Judge. Action by Blandina Schmidt, administratrix of Lucy Schmidt, deceased, against the Erie Railroad Company. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
McPHERSO'N, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff is the mother and administratrix of Lucy Schmidt, and recovered damages in the District Court for the death of her daughter—a young girl about 16 years old—who was killed on September 4, 1912, by an express train of the Erie Railroad Company on a grade crossing in the borough of Rutherford. The deceased had returned to Rutherford from Jersey City upon a local train, that arrived about half past 5 o’clock in the afternoon. After alighting at the station on the south side of the tracks, she walked westwardly upon the platform until she reached the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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