North Pennsylvania Railroad v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action of trespass on the case by Matthew Robinson, James Robinson, Mary Ann Booth, and Robert P. Booth, husband of said Mary Ann Booth, in right of said Mary Ann, and Nancy M. Sloss, against The North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for negligence in causing the death of their father, Matthew Robinson.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action of trespass on the case by Matthew Robinson, James Robinson, Mary Ann Booth, and Robert P. Booth, husband of said Mary Ann Booth, in right of said Mary Ann, and Nancy M. Sloss, against The North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for negligence in causing the death of their father, Matthew Robinson. The material facts of the case were these: — The deceased was run over by a coal-car belonging to the defendants, while it was being roped into a private yard in Front street below the Germantown Road. The accident occurred November 15th…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
This was an action on the case by the plaintiffs, the children of Matthew Robinson, deceased, against the defendants for occasioning his death by negligence in running over him with a coal-car.
The right of action and the parties entitled to it, result entirely from the provisions of the recent statutes, viz.: one of the 15th April 1851, § 19, and the other, 26th April 1855, § 1. The former gives the right of action, and the latter defines who may sue. Liability for such a cause wa.s unknown to the common law, at least in modern times. We…
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