Legal Opinion
Rasmussen v. Palmer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 15, 1943No. 171PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
Harry Rasmussen, Jr., a boy eleven years old, was playing with two other boys in the early evening of September 9, 1941, in the railroad yard in New Rochelle, N. Y., which the defendants operated as trustees of the owner in reorganization, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. He climbed to the top of a freight box car then standing in the yard and as one of his arms was raised when he pretended to shoot a toy pistol it struck a wire strung a half inch over five feet above the roof of the car. This was a live wire carrying an electric current of eleven…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Walsh v. Fitchburg RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Morse v. Buffalo Tank Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1939
- Perry v. . Rochester Lime Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. FruchterSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
9 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.
3Cited by6 opinions
- Edwards v. Consolidated Rail Corp.District Court, District of Columbia · 1983
- People v. Joseph, New York County Courts1958
- Martucci v. Brooklyn Children's Aid Soc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
- Bowen v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.District Court, N.D. New York · 2005
- Lefler v. Pennsylvania RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1952
1 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.