Goldsboro v. Central Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

XjTPPINcott, J.

This action was brought to recover damages for injuries claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff in a collision with a locomotive on the New Jersey Southern Railroad, at a crossing near Shephard’s Mills, in the county of Cumberland, on the 28th day of December,. 1892.

*50The plaintiff was driving in an open wagon on a public road which approached this, railroad crossing at about an angle of twenty degrees, and as his horses reached the track they were struck by the locomotive and killed, his wagon was thrown to one side and the…