Miller v. Director General of Railroads
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 414, Jan. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1919, No. 3497, on verdict for defendant, in case of Mary R. Miller v. Director General of Railroads. Trespass for death of plaintiff’s husband. Before ■ Ferguson, J. ' The opinion of the Supreme Court states the'C'asé. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was portion of charge recited in the opinion of the Supreme Court, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Simpson,
On January 13, 1919, John W. Miller, Jr., plaintiff’s deceased husband, was a passenger on one of defendant’s local trains, and, as a result of a collision between it and another of defendant’s trains traveling in the same direction on the same track, received “a very small insignificant looking cut [skin deep]......across the bridge of the nose.” The wound was “healing slowly [the slowness probably being due to his age, which was seventy years], but it had never entirely healed,” when, on February 16, 1919, “symptoms of erysipelas” developed, which also “had…
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