Legal Opinion
Delaware & H. R. Corp. v. Bonzik
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 30, 1939No. Nos. 6956-6965PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARIS, Circuit Judge.
On July 23, 1933 seven boys, all minors, boarded the defendant’s train at Hudson, Pennsylvania, in order to ride to an amusement park about ten miles distant. The train consisted of seventy-seven loaded and seven empty freight cars; was pulled by an engine at the head and pushed by another engine at the rear. The boys said that they climbed onto a car close to the front engine and worked their way back to the forty-fifth car, a flat gondola loaded with sheets of steel. About six miles from Hudson at Avoca the train was derailed and several of the cars, among which was the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- New York Central Railroad v. MohneySupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Zavodnick v. Rose SonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
- Peden v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
- Hughes v. Murdoch Storage & Transfer Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
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