Campbell v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Williams, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $5,000 as against the defendant Standard Oil Company and, by direction of the court, in favor of the defendant Railroad Company, from which the Standard Oil Company and also the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The case was tried to the jury, but it appears from the record that most of the facts were not in dispute. The Standard Oil Company, on August 17th, 1911, owned and used a yard for the storing of petroleum and its products. In the yard were five spur tracks, and one main track which passed through the gates of the yard to a connection with the defendant railroad outside the gates. These tracks were numbered from one to six. The railroad brought daily into the yard cars loaded with material for the Oil Company or empty cars owned by the Union Tank Company, which were loaded by the Oil Company…
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