Birch v. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 302, Oct. T., 1894, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1892, No. 58, on demurrer in favor of defendant. Trespass for negligence.
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Appeal, No. 302, Oct. T., 1894, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Nov. T., 1892, No. 58, on demurrer in favor of defendant. Trespass for negligence. Plaintiffs’ amended statement was as follows: “ T. F. Birch and J. W. Rowland, executors of the last will and testament of Mary V. Taylor, deceased,—substituted by leave of the court under the.provisions of the 18th section of the act of April 15,1851, as plaintiffs herein in place of the said Mary V. Taylor, by whom this action of trespass was brought in her lifetime against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Sterrett,-
This action of trespass was brought by Mrs. Mary Y. Ta}rlor in August, 1892, to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by reason of the negligence of defendant company’s employees while she was a passenger on one of its trains.
On March 28, 1893, after the cause was at issue but before trial, she died, and, on August 30th following, her executors above named were substituted as plaintiffs. By leave of court they filed ^an amended statement, to which defendant company demurred, “for the reason that said statement discloses the fact that the said…
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