State v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wachenfeld, J.

Eighty-four lives were lost in an unusually disastrous accident when a railroad train operated by the. defendant was hurled from a trestle over which it was traveling in Middlesex County. The grand jury investigation resulted in 84 separate indictments being returned against the defendant, each for the crime of manslaughter, each charging the defendant “did feloniously kill and slay” one of the persons killed in the accident.

The State, through the prosecutor, in the County Court moved to consolidate all the indictments, asking they be…