Leahy v. Detroit, M. & T. Short Line Ry.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Action by Mary A. Leahy, as administratrix of the estate of Gertrude Helen Delaney, against the Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Short Line Railway. There was a judgment'for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, District Judge.
This litigation resulted from a deplorable accident which occurred at the intersection of the defendant’s track and the Matzinger road, near the city of Toledo. The track ran north and south and the road east and west, crossing at right angles. Three sisters were instantly killed. One of them was Gertrude Helen Delaney. The plaintiff was appointed administratrix of her estate, and began this- action in the court of common pleas of Lucas county, from which it was removed to the court below upon the petition of the defendant, which is a Michigan corporation.
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