Miller v. Coffin
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Bill in Equity for an injunction. On demurrer and-subsequently on the sufficiency of a plea. The bill was preferred by the widow and next of kin of Alfred Miller, deceased, to enjoin the respondent who was administrator on the estate of said Alfred Miller, from discontinuing an action brought by them in his name as such administrator under Pub.
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Bill in Equity for an injunction. On demurrer and-subsequently on the sufficiency of a plea. The bill was preferred by the widow and next of kin of Alfred Miller, deceased, to enjoin the respondent who was administrator on the estate of said Alfred Miller, from discontinuing an action brought by them in his name as such administrator under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 2-04, §§15, 18. The' bill alleged e ‘ that the said Alfred Miller died at said Newport on the twenty-eighth day of September, A. D.'1888, and that his death was caused by the negligence of the Newport and Wickford Railroad and…
1Opinion
The complainants are the widow and next of kin of Alfred Miller, deceased, and the respondent is administrator upon his estate. It is alleged that while the deceased was serving as engineer of the steamer Eolus, in the employ of the Newport and Wickford Railroad and Steamboat Company, in September, 1888, he lost his life because said company negligently permitted nitric acid, shipped by the Adams Express Company on said steamer, to escape, thereby setting fire to said steamer and causing poisonous fumes and smoke from which he died. In July, 1894, the complainants, in the name of the…
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- Proctor v. Hann. & St. Joe. R. R.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Elliott v. St. Louis & Iron Mountain R. R.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1878
- Parker v. Providence & Stonington Steamboat Co.Supreme Court of Rhode Island · 1891
- Sayles v. BatesSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1886
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