Slater v. Illinois Cent. R.
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
At Taw. Action by Frederick F. Slater, administrator, etc., against the Illinois Cenrtal Railroad' Company. On demurrer to declaration. This suit was brought by the plaintiff, as administrator, to recover damages for the death of his intestate.
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At Taw. Action by Frederick F. Slater, administrator, etc., against the Illinois Cenrtal Railroad' Company. On demurrer to declaration. This suit was brought by the plaintiff, as administrator, to recover damages for the death of his intestate. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff’s intestate, while riding, with a friend, on one of the defendant’s freight trains, and rounding a curve, was, by reason of the defective coupling of the engine and cars and the inefficiency, unskillfulness and negligence of the railway employe in the manner of running the train, thrpwn from the train, falling…
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
Plaintiff, in the declaration, does not seek a recovery for the injuries to his intestate resulting in the cutting off of his leg, but to recover damages for his death due to the alleged wanton neglect of the defendant’s agents and employés to procure medical attention for the plaintiff’s intestate after they had taken him in charge after the accident and removed him, over his protest, about a mile from the scene of the accident and placed him in a work or box car on the siding.
[1] The declaration does not show that plaintiff’s intestate was riding on the defendant’s…
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