Waldo v. Goodsell
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill of interpleader, brought to the superior court for Hartford County, and reserved on an admission of the facts alleged in the bill for the advice of this court.
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Bill of interpleader, brought to the superior court for Hartford County, and reserved on an admission of the facts alleged in the bill for the advice of this court. The petitioners were counsellors at law and partners, and as such brought in. the name of Willis Goodsell, executor of Andrew D. Euson, an action against the Hartford and New Haven Railroad Company, for damages under the statute of 1853, for the death of the said Euson, a passenger on the railroad, by the negligence of the railroad company. That case is reported in the present volume, page 51, and the statute referred to is given…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCurdy, J.
In this case, it being a bill of interpleader, the petitioners are merely nominal parties, and the real controversy is between the two respondents, Goodsell as the rep*434resentative of Andrew D.. Euson, and Shelton as the representative of Catherine S. Euson his wife.
The equitable considerations would seem not to be particularly favorable to the claims of the former. Upon the happening of the catastrophe which swept away lmsband and wife, a question' arose as to the party entitled to the damages allowed by the statute, and the amount to be recovered of the railroad company for their negligence.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Goodsell v. Hartford & New Haven RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1865
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