Burk v. Arcata & Mad River Railroad

This is an appeal from a judgment and from an order refusing a new trial. The suit was brought by a sister and two brothers of George W. Burk to recover damages for his death, which was caused by the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiffs are all adults, and the deceased at the time of his death was thirty-four years old. It was admitted that he was in good health, a competent and reliable locomotive engineer, in the receipt of monthly wages in the sum of seventy-five dollars, and.was well inured to his work. He had never been married and was boarding with one of his brothers immediately…