Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. v. Ashelman

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

Plaintiff railroad company, a Pennsylvania corporation, filed a bill in equity to restrain defendants, a man and wife, who live in Luzerne County, this State, from maintaining a lawsuit, commenced in the State of New Jersey, to recover from the present plaintiff damages alleged to have been sustained by the present defendants in a collision at a grade crossing of plaintiff’s railroad in Columbia County, Pennsylvania; the court below dismissed the bill and plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff corporation operates its railroad and carries on its business in…