Lynam and Wife v. P., W. B. R. R. Co.

This was an action on the case against the company for negligently running a train of cars against a carriage in which the wife of the plaintiff, Thomas P. Lynam, was riding and driving across the railroad of the company, and by which she was very severely injured.

The wife of the plaintiff with a son of theirs seventeen years of age, and a young lady left the City of Wilmington after dark about 6 o'clock on Christmas Eve, 1872, in a double seated carriage drawn by a single horse, to return to the farm of the father of the plaintiff, on the Newport turnpike, through which the railroad of the…