Helen Martin and Walter H. Martin v. Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company

PECK, Circuit Judge.

In this action, Mrs. Martin sought to recover damages from defendant-appellant, the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company (hereinafter “defendant”) for injuries sustained when, as the victim of an abortive purse-snatching attempt occurring on the premises of defendant’s Warren, Ohio, passenger station, she was knocked to the ground. Mr. Martin, who was accompanying his wife at the time the attempted purse snatching took place, also asserted a cause of action based upon the loss of his wife’s services. After removal from the Common Pleas Court for Trumbull County, Ohio, to the…