Pitkin v. New York & New England Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the alleged negligence of the defendant in causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate ; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard in damages to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs to recover 14,000 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtAndbews, C. J.
This was an appeal from a judgment awarding four thousand dollars and costs to the plaintiffs on a hearing in damages after a default.
The plaintiffs are the administrators on the estate of Evelyn R. Pitkin, late of South Windsor, deceased. This suit was brought to recover damages for injuries done to the said deceased by the defendant. The complaint avers that on the 14th day of September, 1889, a train of the defendant came into collision with a horse and wagon driven by and in the possession of the said Evelyn R. Pitkin, at a grade crossing in the town of East Hartford ; that by reason of…
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