Chase v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad

These are five actions to recover damages caused by a collision of an automobile in which the plaintiffs were riding, with a locomotive engine and a combination passenger and baggage car of the defendant, at a crossing of the highway by the railroad in East Brookfield, on August 21,1906. The second of the actions is for the death of the first plaintiff’s intestate, caused by this accident. Each of the others has counts at common law, as well as a count under the St. 1906, c. 463, Part II. § 245, founded upon the alleged neglect of the defendant to give the signals required by law at railroad…