Mattle Gay, As Administratrix of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of John Joseph Krause, Deceased, and Erva Lorraine Hill, Widow of Said Deceased, Plaintiffs-appellants, and Royal Indemnity Company, Intervener-plaintiff-appellant, v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Defendant-appellee, 199 F.2d 370 (2d Cir. 1952)

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - 199 F.2d 370 (2d Cir. 1952) Argued October 10, 1952
Decided October 29, 1952

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; Rubey M. Hulen, Judge, sitting in the Southern District by assignment.

Action for wrongful death resulting from a railroad crossing accident in Delaware when the deceased drove a motor truck into the side of a moving freight train. Federal jurisdiction rests on diversity of citizenship. From a directed judgment of dismissal and from an order denying a new trial, the plaintiff and the intervener-plaintiff appeal.

Jacob Rassner, New York City, Robert Klonsky and Irving Frank, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff-appellant.

Sutta & Frankel, New York City, Nathan Frankel and Frank Reiter, New York City, on the brief, for intervener-plaintiff-appellant.

Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman, New York City, Edward F. Butler, New York City, of counsel, for appellee.

Before SWAN, Chief Judge, and L. HAND and FRANK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.


Affirmed on the authority of Philadelphia & Reading Ry. Co. v. Dillon, 1 W.W.Harr. 247, 31 Del. 247, 114 A. 62, 15 A.L.R. 894, and Jones v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 5 Terry 486, 44 Del. 486, 61 A.2d 691.

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