Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co. v. Effinger
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Charles F. Lynch, Judge. Action at law by Joseph J. Effinger, administrator of the estate of Thomas J. Effinger, deceased, against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
The parties, plaintiff and defendant, will be designated as they stood at the trial in the District Court, unless otherwise indicated. There are two errors assigned. The first relating to trial rulings on evidence is subdivided under seven heads, and the second is directed to the submission of the cause to the jury. There were no exceptions taken to the charge of the trial judge. Both parties accepted and commended the charge as a correct statement of the law; the plaintiff without qualification, and the defendant on the assumption that the evidence excepted to was…
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