David v. West Jersey & Seashore Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This suit was brought in the Camden Circuit Court to recover damages for the death of a boy, seven years and ten months of age, who was killed at the intersection of Liberty street, Camden, with ihe double-track railroad of the defendant company.

Prom the conflicting testimony at the trial it was clearly open to the jury to find the following matters of fact: The decedent, having approached the crossing, was standing “on the first plank of the crossing close to the track.” He was watching a northbound freight train passing on the farther…