Pennsylvania Railroad v. Adams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Juniata county. This was an action on the case, commenced October 22d 1864, by John Adams and Franconia, his wife, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the negligence of the defendants’ servants, resulting in the death of the plaintiffs’ son, John W. Adams.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Juniata county. This was an action on the case, commenced October 22d 1864, by John Adams and Franconia, his wife, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the negligence of the defendants’ servants, resulting in the death of the plaintiffs’ son, John W. Adams. On the 21st of September 1864, the son was travelling in the defendants’ ear, and by a collision with a freight train, the ear in which the deceased was riding was broken to pieces, and he was killed. On the trial before Graham, P. J., it was admitted by the defendants that the collision was…
1Opinion of the Court
*501The opinion of the court was delivered, July 3d 1867, by
Thompson, J.
— The important question of this case is, whether the plaintiffs, the father and mother of the deceased, who lost his life by the culpable negligence of the defendants’ servants while transporting him as a passenger on the line of their road, can recover damages on account of his death under the provisions of the Acts of Assembly of the 15th April 1851 and 26th April 1855, he being at the time six or seven and twenty years of age. The negligence on part of the servants of the company was admitted, but the right of the…
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