Davis v. Lewis

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Charles E. Lewis was driving a heavy truck along Johnson Avenue in Jersey City. On crossing the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company he was thrown to the ground and killed. Sadie J. Lewis, his administratrix, brought this action against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, operating the Lehigh Valley system, to recover under the Death Act of New Jersey (2 N. J. Comp. St. p. 1907, pl. 7) the pecuniary loss which she, as widow, and those who were next of kin of the decedent, had sustained by reason of his death. In her complaint she charged that her…