Legal Opinion

Hammill v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided June 4, 1915PublishedCited by 9 opinions

On certiorari to award of Middlesex Pleas in workmen’s compensation ease.

1Opinion of the Court

Tlie opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The petitioner is a sister of Thomas Dolan,

deceased, who fell off a barge, or scow, on the Delaware and Earitan canal, in the course of his employment as a boatman, and was drowned. Mo question is raised but that the Pennsylvania Eailroad Company operates the canal as lessee (see Black v. Canal Company, 22 N. J. Eq. 130, 401; 24 Id. 455), and it satisfactorily appears that the deceased was employed and paid bv tlie railroad company. It; is not denied that deceased came to bis death from an accident arising out of and iu tlie course of his…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Globe Grain & Milling Co. v. Industrial Commisson of UtahUtah Supreme Court · 1920
  2. Grant v. KotwallCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1919
  3. Alexander v. Cunningham Roofing Co., Inc.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1940
  4. Grand Trunk Ry. Co. of Canada v. KnappCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1916
  5. Koeppel v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1937

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