Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Bowen
Indiana Supreme Court
From Johnson Circuit Court; Wm. E. Deupree, Judge. Action by Belle Bowen, administratrix of the estate of John S. Bowen, deceased, against The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals. (Transferred from the Appellate Court under §1405 Burns 1908, Acts 1901 p. 590.)
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
Appellee’s decedent was a passenger on one of appellant’s trains. This train was wrecked by the explosion of a car-load of powder, which was a part of a freight train resting in transit on .a siding of appellant’s road and which the passenger train was passing as the explosion occurred. As a result of the explosion and the ensuing wrecking of the car in which he was riding the decedent received injuries from which he died and this action was brought by appellee to recover damages for his death. The cause was submitted to a jury on issues formed by general denials of each of three paragraphs…
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