Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — Liabilities of Railroad Conipanies. [ARTICLE]

Liabilities of Railroad Conipanies.

Threq Railroad cases have just been tried in the Circuit Court at Bull'alo. Two were brought by the widows of two men who were killed at the Elk street crossing, in Buffalo; and the third, by a man who was injured at the same time. They were run into by pi locomotive. The defense-set up was, that the injuries were sustained by the negligence of the parties. A 1 :rge number of witnesses were examined, ar.d eminent legal counsel were employed on both sides. The jury returned a verdict in the two former cases of $4,500 each; and in the latter of SI,OOO fur the plaintiffs. In-the two former cases„thp amount awarded was withii SSOO of the ®mit allowed by the statute for the destruction of human life.