Precodnick v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by -

Vkoom, J.

The plaintiff’s intestate was employed by the defendant as a track repairer and was a member of a gang of ten or twelve men who were working on the east side of a highway bridge near Park Yiew, N. J. During the morning of the accident Precodniek had been sent by the foreman to a point on the west side of the bridge, two hundred and twenty-five feet west therefrom, to assist a signal and repairman there. The bridge was one hundred feet wide.

The train that ran down the deceased had passed over the track on which the men were working some ten…