Lynch's Admr. v. Central Vermont Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1912, Franklin County, Fish, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This case, having once before been argued, was by the Court ordered to be re-argued, and at the May Term, 1915, a re-argument was had before the Court as now constituted.
The plaintiff is administrator of the estate of Merton J. Lynch, who was a division roadmaster of the defendant, and who was killed December 15, 1910, in an accident on the defendant’s road. The declaration alleges that the plaintiff’s intestate was injured through the negligence of the defendant’s servants, and is brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act of 1908, as amended, to recover for the benefit of the widow…
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