Smith v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

On December 4, 1923, John Null, the deceased, a resident of Philadelphia, while driving an automobile across the tracks of the defendant, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at a public grade crossing in the State of New Jersey, met his death in a collision with one of defendant’s trains. Thereafter letters of administration upon his estate were granted to Ward Smith by the register of wills of Philadelphia County, who, in April, 1924, as such administrator, brought this suit and in a statement of claim averred that Null’s death was caused by the defendant’s…