[556] Ibid.
[557] Woodruff v. G. W. R., 18 U. C. Q. B. 420.
[558] Alexander v. Toronto & N. Rw., 33 U. C. Q. B. 474; S. C., on appeal, 35 U. C. Q. B. 453.
[559] Palmater v. Wagner, Marine Ct. N. Y. 1875.
CHAPTER XIV.
INJURIES TO PASSENGERS AND EMPLOYEES.
An Inefficient Line.—Passengers hurt.—Employees killed.—Lord Campbell’s Act.—Compensation for Death.—Solatium for Feelings Wounded.—Scotch Law.—American Law.—Hen-pecked Husband’s Will.—The Rule in Massachusetts.—In Pennsylvania.—In Maryland.—In Canada.—Hard to decide.—Annuity Tables.—Bad or Diseased.—Insured.—Children Injured.—Parents Compensated.—Amounts obtained.—A Leg at $24,700.—For what compensated.—Chances of Matrimony.—Servants injured.—Fellow Servants.—Different Companies.—Which One to sue.—Strangers’ Act.—Greedy Ruminant.
I had fondly hoped that no new points, quirks, or quiddities on railway law would arise in the course of my not very extensive practise for some time to come, so that I might have leisure to paddle my own little canoes, and issue little billets-doux in the Queen’s name to the company on my own account. But alas! I had scarcely settled down in my office on the day of my arrival at home when my young friend, Tom Jones (to whom I referred in the early pages of this interesting and instructive diary of mine), came rushing in.
After a considerable amount of small talk, chit-chat and mutual inquiries after mutual friends and affairs, and things mutually interesting, Tom exclaimed, “I say, old fellow, I have a couple of matters that are bothering me, and I want your advice thereon.”
By the way, nearly all Tom Jones’ matters bothered him, and when they bothered him he bothered me, for he was not one of those who
Make law their study and delight,
Read it by day and meditate by night.