Keegan v. Director General of Railroads
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while he was a passenger on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Avon in the State of Connecticut on November 18, 1918. Writ dated November 10, 1919; also an action of Tort by the administratrix of the estate of James E. Backer to recover under the provisions of statutes of the State of Connecticut for the causing through negligence of conscious suffering and the death of the plaintiff’s intestate resulting…
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Tort for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while he was a passenger on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Avon in the State of Connecticut on November 18, 1918. Writ dated November 10, 1919; also an action of Tort by the administratrix of the estate of James E. Backer to recover under the provisions of statutes of the State of Connecticut for the causing through negligence of conscious suffering and the death of the plaintiff’s intestate resulting from personal injuries received by him at Meridqp in the State of Connecticut on July 29, 1918, while he was employed as a…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
The first of these actions is brought to recover damages for personal injury received in the State of Connecticut by a resident of that State while a passenger on the system of transportation commonly known as the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad during the period of federal control. The second action is brought by the administratrix resident in Connecticut of the estate of a deceased resident of that State to recover damages for personal injury and resultant death of the decedent, all occurring in that State during the period of federal control of the same railroad system while the…
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