May v. West Jersey & Seashore Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lippinoott, J.

Ellen May, the wife of Louis May, the plaintiff, was killed on July 30th, 1896, in a collision between the trains of the defendant companies. Her husband, as her administrator, sues the defendants under the Death act of this state (Gen. Stat., p. 1188), to recover damages for her two surviving children as her next of kin.

The cause was tried at the Salem Circuit, at the January Term, 1898.

The liability for the accident and for damages, if any accrued to the next of kin, was conceded at the trial. The next of kin of the deceased were an…