Delaware v. Shelton
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. This case was tried before Justice Depue and a jury, at tbe September Term, 1892, of the Essex Circuit. The horse and buggy of the plaintiff was in charge of his-driver, and was injured by being run over by the locomotive of the railroad company at the Grove street crossing, in Montclair. This suit was brought for damages thus occasioned.
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On error to the Supreme Court. This case was tried before Justice Depue and a jury, at tbe September Term, 1892, of the Essex Circuit. The horse and buggy of the plaintiff was in charge of his-driver, and was injured by being run over by the locomotive of the railroad company at the Grove street crossing, in Montclair. This suit was brought for damages thus occasioned. A verdict having been rendered for the plaintiff and judgment entered thereon, a writ of error 'was brought to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lippincott, J.
On the night of January 8th, 1891, shortly after ten o’clock, a collision occurred between a locomotive of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company and a horse and buggy belonging to and driven by a servant or driver of the plaintiff, at the Grove street crossing, in Montclair. The plaintiff is a physician in Montclair, and, after leaving him at his residence, his driver was taking the horse and buggy to the stables, and, in crossing the railroad track of the defendant, this accident occurred.
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