Creed v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1877, No. 21. This was an action on the case for damages, brought by Joanna Creed,'widow of Henry B. Creed, deceased, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for the death of the said Henry B. Creed, caused by the alleged negligence of the said company.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1877, No. 21. This was an action on the case for damages, brought by Joanna Creed,'widow of Henry B. Creed, deceased, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for the death of the said Henry B. Creed, caused by the alleged negligence of the said company. The accident, by which decedent met his death occurred on November 5th 1874, at Schenck’s Station] which is on the road of the said company, about nine miles from the city of Trenton, N. J. The declaration was in case for negligence, in not safely carrying…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
From the evidence it appears that Henry Creed, the husband of the plaintiff, from the death of whom the present action has resulted, was a passenger upon a mixed freight and passenger train of the defendant, running from Jersey City to Philadelphia. At the time of the accident, which resulted in his death, Creed was in the caboose, the hindmost car of the train, immediately in front of which were the passenger-cars, so that there was ready and easy access from the latter to the former. This caboose-car was one set apart and especially designed for the use and occupancy of the employees…
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