Richter v. Pennsylvania Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county : Of October and November Term 1883, No. 163. Case, by Amelia Richter, widow of Frank Richter, deceased, as well for herself as for Frank Richter, Jr., minor child of said Frank Richter, deceased, against The Pennsylvania Company, operating the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, to recover damages for the death of said Frank Richter, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of the defendant’s servants.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county : Of October and November Term 1883, No. 163. Case, by Amelia Richter, widow of Frank Richter, deceased, as well for herself as for Frank Richter, Jr., minor child of said Frank Richter, deceased, against The Pennsylvania Company, operating the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, to recover damages for the death of said Frank Richter, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. On the trial, before Stowe, P. J., the plaintiff’s evidence showed the following facts; The deceased was employed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
On and before the 19th of November 1881, Prank Richter, the deceased, was employed in and about the rolling mill of the Oliver Brothers! Leading into’this mill there was a switch or side track, from the defendant’s railway, on which, as necessity required, the cars of the company were run for the purpose of carrying material to and from the said mill, or iron works.
Richter’s business was to haul, or assist in hauling, in a hand vehicle, called a buggy, ashes and cinders from the furnaces in the mill, across the switch above mentioned, to that part of the grounds of the firm set apart for…
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