Howard v. Delaware & H. Canal Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
At Law. Action for damages for wrongfully killing plaintiff’s intestate.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
Clary, tlie plaintiff’s intestate, was about thirty-seven years old; bad three brothers and two sisters, no wife, children, or parents; and had accumulated no property. He was employed as a track-man by a section boss of the defendant’s road; and, with four others, under direction of tho boss, was running a hand-car over a part of their section towards a train coming from the other way, to which the boss bad sent their signal-flag by one of the trackmen, to warn those in charge of the train of the approach of the hand-car. Neither the engineer nor any one in charge of or on the train was…
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