Bruce v. McAdoo

These appeals are prosecuted by the defendant Wm. G. McAdoo, Director-General of Bailroads, from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

It appears from the pleadings and the proof that the action was instituted by the plaintiff as administrator of the estate of Q. Price, deceased, to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have resulted from the negli*280gence of the defendant in delivering to the Star Coal Company, on a side-track leading to its tipple or loading place, an empty freight-car to be loaded with coal, having a defective…