Stagg v. McCann

Lewis, Y. C.

On January 1st, 1922, L. Lloyd McCann was killed while riding in an automobile which was struck at the Fiver street crossing, in Paterson, by a train of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Eailroad Company. His wife, Kathryn E. McCann, who was riding with him at the time, was injured, but survived. She was appointed administratrix ad prosequendum- of her deceased husband, pursuant to the statute (P. L. 1917 p. 531), and brought suit, as such against the railroad company to recover damages under the “Death act.” *54In that suit she claimed that, as the widow, she alone is entitled…