Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co. v. Le Barr
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Charles B. Witmer, Judge. Action by Victor E. Ee Barr against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company and'William G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOOEEEY, Circuit Judge.
Blanche Ee' Barr was killed in a collision at a grade grossing on the defendant’s railroad. Victor E. Ee Barr, her husband, brought this action to recover damages for her death, charging, as the defendant’s negligence, first, its failure to give warning by bell or whistle of the approaching train, and second, the act of its crossing flagman in signalling the driver of the vehicle in which his wife was riding to pass over the tracks in front of the train. The verdict was for the plaintiff. By this writ the defendant brings *130here for review several rulings of the trial…
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