Hearn v. Wilmington City Railway Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Two Actions on the Case,—the first, being No. 19, March Term, 1909, was brought to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff therein, arising from a collision of a horse and wagon, driven by the plaintiff, with a car of the defendant, on December 8, 1908, at the intersection of Manor Avenue with the Philadelphia Pike, in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County; and the second, being No. 78, September Term, 1909, was brought to recover damages for injuries to the…
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Two Actions on the Case,—the first, being No. 19, March Term, 1909, was brought to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff therein, arising from a collision of a horse and wagon, driven by the plaintiff, with a car of the defendant, on December 8, 1908, at the intersection of Manor Avenue with the Philadelphia Pike, in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County; and the second, being No. 78, September Term, 1909, was brought to recover damages for injuries to the said horse and wagon owned by the plaintiff therein, occasioned by the same collision. The two actions by consent of…
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—By consent of counsel, you have been empanelled to try two cases together, but to render a separate verdict in each case, in accordance with the law, as announced to you by the Court, and the evidence, adduced at the trial.
The first of these actions was brought by Samuel W. Hearn, the plaintiff therein, against the Wilmington City Railway Company, the defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries to the said plaintiff; and the second, was brought by Robert D. Morrow, trading as James Morrow and Son, the plaintiff therein, against the…
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