Farley v. Wilmington and New Castle Electric Railway Co.
Decision Date | 24 June 1902 |
Court | Delaware Superior Court |
Parties | JOHN P. FARLEY and JOHN P. FARLEY, Administrator of VICTORINE A. FARLEY, deceased, v. WILMINGTON AND NEW CASTLE ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware. JOHN P. FARLEY v. WILMINGTON AND NEW CASTLE ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware |
Superior Court, New Castle County, May term, 1902.
ACTIONS ON THE CASE (Nos. 28 and 29, respectively, November Term 1900).
The facts appear in the charge of the Court.
Verdict (in No. 28) for the plaintiff for $ 50. Verdict (in No. 29) for the defendant.
Walter H. Hayes for plaintiff.
Saulsbury Ponder and Curtis for defendants.
OPINION
LORE, C. J., charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:--The plaintiff in the above stated two cases claims that on the second day of July, 1900, while Victorine A. Farley, the wife of the said John P. Farley, the plaintiff, was crossing the railway of the defendant in the public highway at Pyle's Crossing in New Castle Hundred in this county, she was injured through the negligence of the defendant company.
That at that time, while with due care on her part, she was riding with one Horace P. Adams, as a gratuitous passenger, with him in his carriage, drawn by his horse, under his management and control, when a trolley car of the defendant company, running at a high and dangerous rate of speed, negligently, and without ringing the gong or bell or giving any warning, ran into the carriage in which she was riding, threw her out upon the ground with great violence; whereby she was bruised and injured, and suffered therefrom up to the time of her death.
The defendant company claims that the accident was not caused by its negligence, but by that of the said Victorine A. Farley and of the said Adams, in crossing the said railway without stopping, listening or looking.
The first of the two suits was brought by the husband and wife in her lifetime, to recover damages for her pain and suffering caused by the accident.
The second was brought by the husband alone, to recover for the loss of the society of his wife and her services and assistance in the management of his domestic affairs.
At the instance of the parties hereto, these two cases are tried together.
They are both based upon the negligence of the defendant company. If there was no such negligence, the plaintiff cannot recover in either case.
Such negligence is never presumed, but must be proved, and the burden of such proof rests upon the plaintiff.
The rules of law governing the use of the public highway in such cases have been well stated in Adams vs. the defendant company, in a case growing out of the same accident, and heretofore tried at this term of court, and are as follows:
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