December 1888: The case of a boy killed by a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western train on a Newark street pointed up the need to redress accidents at grade-level crossings, which were quite prevalent at the time. The Law Journal editors noted the remedy of suing in damages for pecuniary loss arising from the death of the boy, “but as our courts have held that a boy is not worth in money to his parents much more than it costs to raise him, this remedy is to say the least unsatisfactory.”
100 Years Ago
December 1913: New Brunswick elected as mayor former Rutgers College president Austin Scott. He would have “his hands full in regulating the vices…of his city,” the Law Journal editors said. With 90 bars for a population of 25,000, the city had “many times its full share of saloons, each of which is more or less the centre of influences that tear down the moral scaffolding which the colleges and seminary there are so earnestly building up around the young men committed to their care.”
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