ROCCO v. LEHIGH VALLEY R. CO.

No. 359.

288 U.S. 275 (1933)

ROCCO, EXECUTRIX, v. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 6, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Abraham W. Feinberg for petitioner.

Mr. Harold E. Simpson, with whom Mr. Howard Cobb was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner's husband, while riding a track inspection tricycle, was killed in a head-on collision with an electrically operated passenger train on a single track branch of the respondent's railroad connecting Ithaca and Auburn, New York. The line, which skirted the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, was subject to washouts in stormy weather. Primarily to protect four daily passenger trains, the decedent, Rocco...

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