Mitchell v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motions. Two actions tried together, the plaintiffs being husband and wife. The action by the wife to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from the negligence of defendant, and the action by the husband to recover expenses and for loss of services of his wife.
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On motions. Two actions tried together, the plaintiffs being husband and wife. The action by the wife to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from the negligence of defendant, and the action by the husband to recover expenses and for loss of services of his wife. Plaintiffs alleged that the defendant corporation was negligent in allowing a hand or push-car, so called, to remain within the limits of a public highway, in the town of Alton, at which the horse of the husband being driven by him in the public way, drawing a load of boards on which the wife was riding,…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
These two actions, one brought by the husband and the other by the wife, arose from an accident that occurred on March 16, 1922, in the town of Alt'on, caused by the fright of Mr. Mitchell’s horse at a hand or push-car removed by employees of the defendant from the railroad tracks and placed and allowed to remain *178near a railroad crossing and within the limits of the public highway. The section-men had been putting new plank in the crossing. They had come there in their gasolene car and hauled the plank in the push-car. While there they received orders to proceed to another place on the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. TrowbridgeIndiana Supreme Court · 1890
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. MorrowCourt of Appeals of Kansas · 1896
- Story v. JonesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1897
3Cited by1 opinion
- Torrey v. Congress Square Hotel Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1950