Preston v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
At Law. Action by Mary F. Preston against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Sur motion and reasons of defendant for new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
The past record of this case has erased certain impressions of its fact merits which a first glance at the case gives us. One of them is the great lapse of time between the injury and the death. This is so great that the mind at first staggers over the finding that the one was the cause of the other. An intelligent jury, to which the question was submitted, found that it was. A new trial was granted by the trial judge, largely for the reason that *481there was an absence of as clear proof of this fact as the plaintiff was thought to be called upon to supply.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Louisville, Evansville, & St. Louis Railroad v. ClarkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- McCafferty v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Guckavan v. Lehigh Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
- Hogarth v. William H. Grandy & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
- Brashear v. Philadelphia Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
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