Trimble v. Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case (No. 22, March Term, 1913), by Philip T. Trimble against the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad Company to recover damages for personal injuries and for injuries to automobile, occasioned, as alleged, by being negligently struck by the locomotive of a southbound train of the defendant company at “Harmony Crossing,” in White Clay Creek Hundred, on July 18, 1912. According to the testimony of the plaintiff, when approaching the crossing, and at a…
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Action on the Case (No. 22, March Term, 1913), by Philip T. Trimble against the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad Company to recover damages for personal injuries and for injuries to automobile, occasioned, as alleged, by being negligently struck by the locomotive of a southbound train of the defendant company at “Harmony Crossing,” in White Clay Creek Hundred, on July 18, 1912. According to the testimony of the plaintiff, when approaching the crossing, and at a point about two hundred feet south of the roadbed or right of way of the defendant company, he looked to the north,…
1Opinion of the Court
Rice, J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—This is an action brought by Philip *521T. Trimble, the plaintiff, against the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, for the recovery of damages for injuries to himself, and for injury to his automobile, which he alleges to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company on the eighteenth day of July, 1912. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant so carelessly and negligently ran its train at a place in White Clay Creek Hundred, this county, where its tracks cross the public…
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