Coyne v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The plaintiff was nonsuited at the Circuit on this state of facts. Daniel Coyne, a hoy fifteen years of age, while in the act of crossing the southbound track of the New York and Long Branch Railroad Company, at the South Amboy station, about eight o’clock at night, on January 23d, 1912, was killed by an engine of the defendant company, and the plaintiff as his administrator, brings this suit to recover damages under the provisions of the Death act.

The boy, as had been his habit for some years, was at the time of the accident in the act of…