Pennsylvania Co. v. Finney

— The appellee, as the administrator of Patrick J. Finney, sued to recover damages growing out of the death of his decedent, through the alleged negligence of the appellant. The complaint, among other things, avers that the appellant is a corporation and operates a railroad running from Pittsburgh to Chicago through Columbia. City and Fort Wayne, Indiana; “that on the 5th day of April, 1890, at and near the defendant’s, station at Columbia. City, the defendant carelessly and negligently maintained a water plug so near its track that a brakeman, standing upon, and climbing up, on the side of…