SENTNER v. AMTRAK

Civ. A. No. 81-1735.

540 F.Supp. 557 (1982)

Suzanne SENTNER and William Sentner, Plaintiffs, v. AMTRAK (a/k/a National Railroad Passenger Corporation), Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

June 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Shapiro, Kaplan, Friedman & Zand, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

Ellen Paul, Stockman, Mancino, Smithson, O'Donnell & Sypek, Trenton, N. J., for plaintiffs Robbins.

Charles Krause, Speiser & Krause, New York City, for Amtrak.

Bennett J. Wasserman, Hackensack, N. J., liaison counsel in Amtrak actions.

Bernard J. Smolens, Schander, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs Amick.


OPINION

WHIPPLE, Senior District Judge.

This action1 arises as a result of an accident involving two trains operated by defendant, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (N.R.C.P., also referred to herein by its popular name, Amtrak), wherein one train, a passenger train, was struck and impaled by a section of rail which apparently was lying unsecured and askew on the flatbed...

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