Spargo v. Central Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Walker, Chancellor.

This case was tried before Judge Black and a jury in the Morris Circuit and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs, whose intestate, William C. Spargo, was killed by a passenger train at a grade crossing of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey at Dover, on January 25th, 1911, while driving over the crossing.

Error has been assigned — first, that the trial judge erred in refusing to grant a nonsuit; second, that he erred in refusing to direct a verdict for the defendant at the close of the case, and third, that he erred in…