Reed v. Queen Anne's Railroad
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case by widow, to recover damages for death of husband. Plaintiff claimed that in the month of March, 1901, in the town of Milton in Sussex County, at a point where the railroad of the defendant company crosses Federal Street, the carriage in which her husband was riding was struck by one of the defendant’s locomotive steam engines attached to a train of cars; that the carriage was broken to pieces, her husband thrown to the ground and killed; that his death…
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Action on the Case by widow, to recover damages for death of husband. Plaintiff claimed that in the month of March, 1901, in the town of Milton in Sussex County, at a point where the railroad of the defendant company crosses Federal Street, the carriage in which her husband was riding was struck by one of the defendant’s locomotive steam engines attached to a train of cars; that the carriage was broken to pieces, her husband thrown to the ground and killed; that his death was caused by the negligence of the defendant company, in then and there running their train at a high rate of speed,…
1Opinion of the Court
Lobe, C. J.,
charging the jury.:
Gentlemen of the jury:—This action is brought by Mary E. Reed, the plaintiff, against Queen Anne’s Railroad Company, the defendant, to recover damages for the death of her husband John W. Reed.
She claims that in the month of March, 1901, in the town of Milton in this county, at a point where the railroad of the defendant company crosses Federal Street, that the carriage in which her husband was riding was struck by a locomotive steam engine *418attached to a train of cara; that the carriage was broken to pieces, her husband thrown to the ground and killed; that his…
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