SERRATONI v. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY

Nos. 15450, 15451.

333 F.2d 621 (1964)

Teresa SERRATONI, as Administratrix of the Estate of Lois Jane Zatek, Deceased, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. The CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Defendant and Appellee. Eugene LUDWIG, as Guardian of the Estate of Richard Paul Zatek, a minor, Teresa Serratoni, as Administratrix of the Estate of Joan Ellen Zatek, Deceased, Teresa Serratoni, as Administratrix of the Estate of John Michael Zatek, Deceased, John Zatek and Wolverine Insurance Co., a Michigan corporation, as subrogee of John Zatek, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. The CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Defendant and Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 23, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick D. Jasmer, Detroit, Mich., Cassese, Batchelder, Jasmer & Evanski, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for appellants.

Robert A. Straub, Detroit, Mich., James R. Gannon, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for appellee.

Before MILLER, PHILLIPS and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.


EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

These appeals arise out of a tragic grade crossing accident where a mother and three of her children were in an automobile when it stalled on The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway tracks in the path of an 80-car freight train. The train crushed the car; killed the mother, who was driving; killed two of her children, and injured the third. These suits for wrongful deaths and injury were filed by representatives...

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