Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. v. Holbrook
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia, at Roanoke; Henry Clay McDowell, Judge. Action by Sarah E. Holbrook, as administratrix of W. T. Holbrook, deceased, against the Norfolk & Western Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
W. T. Holbrook, a bridge carpenter, was killed in January, 1913, on one of defendant’s railroad bridges by a passenger train, known as No. 15. The plaintiff, his widow, as administratrix of his estate, suing for the benefit of herself and his five infant children under the act o-f Congress of 1908 as amended in 1910, recovered judgment for damages in the District Court for the Western *689District of Virginia, under the allegation that her intestate’s death was caused by the negligence of the defendant.
[1] The motion to dismiss the appeal must be refused. The first ground for…
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