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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session
Page: 735↓
Court of Session Inner House Second Division.
v.
In this case, in which Mrs Margaret Brown or Gould, residing at Abbotsford Place, Glasgow, widow of the deceased Peter Gould, some time dry-salter in Glasgow, and Thomas Gould, son of the said deceased Peter Gould and the said Mrs Margaret Brown or Gould, his mother and adminis-trator-in-law, were pursuers, and the Caledonian Railway Company were defenders, the issue was as follows:—
“Whether, on or about the 23d November 1867, the said Peter Gould, whilst travelling as a passenger along the defenders' line of railway, and at or near to a part of said line near to Hamilton Station, and known as Hamilton or Newton Junction, was killed through the fault of the defenders—to the loss, injury, and damage of the pursuers, his widow and child?”
Damages laid at, to each of the pursuers, £2500.
Watson and Thomson for pursuers.
Young and Johnston for defender.
The jury awarded damages to the amount of £800 for the widow, and £500 for the son.
Solicitors: Agent for Pursuers— James Buchanan, S.S.C.
Agents for Defenders— Hope & Mackay, W.S.