Parker v. Reading Co.

JOHN W. LORD, Jr., District Judge.

Plaintiff administrator brought suit under the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Acts, 12 P.S. §§ 1601,1602, 20 P.S. § 320.601, for the death of Joseph Gossner in a collision between Gossner’s car and defendant’s locomotive. Evidence was presented for seventeen days before this Court and a jury, resulting in a verdict for plaintiff in the total sum of $100,000. At the close of plaintiff’s case, defendant moved for a directed verdict; and again at the close of all the evidence that motion was renewed, being joined with a motion for judgment n.o.v. Rule…