Gorman v. Hand Brewing Company
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case for Negligence.
1Opinion of the CourtDubois, J.
This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence, brought, under the statute, by the widow of Jeremiah Gorman, to recover damages for the death of her husband, which, she alleges, was caused by the wrongful act, default or neglect of the defendant.
It appears that the plaintiff’s husband, a strong, healthy man of the age of thirty-two years, a driver in the employ of the defendant, while properly driving a pair of horses harnessed to a loaded wagon, in the course of his employment, on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1904, received the injuries which caused his death by being thrown from…
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