Penna. & N. Y. Canal & R. R. v. Mason
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writs of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford eounty : Of July Term 1884, Nos. 41 and 122. These were two actions of trespass on the case, brought by Anna Mason and Sarah Leslie against the Pennsylvania & New York Canal and Railroad Company to recover damages for the deaths of their respective husbands, Frank Mason and John Leslie, caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant company. The defendant pleaded not guilty.
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Writs of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford eounty : Of July Term 1884, Nos. 41 and 122. These were two actions of trespass on the case, brought by Anna Mason and Sarah Leslie against the Pennsylvania & New York Canal and Railroad Company to recover damages for the deaths of their respective husbands, Frank Mason and John Leslie, caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant company. The defendant pleaded not guilty. On the respective trials in the court below, before Morrow, P. J., the facts appeared to be substantially the same in both cases and were as follows : John Leslie…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
*299On the 26th day of April, 1880, in consequence of the explosion of a locomotive boiler belonging to the defendant below, John Leslie, the engineer, was killed .outright, and Frank Mason, the fireman, was so injured that he died on the 4th of May following, and these actions were brought by their widows severally for damages resulting to them from the death of their respective husbands. As these actions are in all respects similar, they were, in this court, argued together, and for this reason we will dispose of both in the same opinion.
Certain questions which arose in the court below have…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ford v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
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