Price v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 202 and 203, Jan T., 1901, by plaintiffs, from orders of C. P. Northampton Co., April T., 1899, Nos. 33 and 48, refusing to talce off nonsuits in cases of Mary E. Price v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and Mary E. Yoxheimer v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiffs’ husbands. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
These appeals are brought here and argued together. Price was engineer, and Yoxheimer fireman on an engine of defendant. It was drawing train No. 6 up Wilkes-Barre Mountain, November 11, 1898, in the night-time. Its orders were, that it would meet train No, 5 coming down the mountain at siding No 7, *177which was about halfway to the summit. Before they reached the siding and half a mile from it, an engine coming down the mountain crashed into the upgoing one, and both Price and Yoxheimer were killed. Their widows, these plaintiffs, alleging their husbands’ deaths were caused by…
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