Houston v. Delaware, L. & W. R.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey 5 Charles ‘F. Lynch, Judge. Action by Sarah A. Houston, administratrix of Frank J. Houston, deceased, against the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVÍS, Circuit Judge.
Frank J. Houston, plaintiff's intestate, was a passenger on defendant’s train running from Hoboken to and through Orange, N. J., on April 5, 1917. The station at Orange, at this time, was a stationary one. On each side of the station the defendant was doing extensive construction work. The train was composed of the locomotive, 55 feet long, and 6 coaches, each 60 feet long. The car next to the locomotive in which the deceased was sitting was a combination car, one end of which was used as a baggage car, which was next to the locomotive, and the other end as a smoker. In…
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