Snyder v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 316, Jan. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Centre Co., April T., 1901, No. 75, refusing to take off nonsuit in the case of Minerva Belle Snyder v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Love, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which on motion it refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 316, Jan. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Centre Co., April T., 1901, No. 75, refusing to take off nonsuit in the case of Minerva Belle Snyder v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Love, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which on motion it refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was in refusing to take off the nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
David W. Snyder was a fireman in the employ of defendant company. On October 21, 1900, he was serving as a fireman *622on a locomotive drawing a train on the Bald Eagle Valley branch of defendant’s road between Lock Haven and Tyrone. The train left Lock Haven about twelve o’clock noon on Sunday of the day noticed, reaching a point near Howard’s Station in about an hour, where it ran over two cattle upon the track; the locomotive dragged the cattle about 160 feet when it left the track and was wrecked; Snyder was killed. His widow brings this suit for damages, averring that the…
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