Quinn v. Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment, entered January 6, 1916, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPound, J.
Plaintiff was the captain of a coal barge. The barge was sent to defendant’s dock at St. George, Staten Island, to be loaded. It was lying there over Sunday when the accident in question occurred. The dock is a large double-deck structure extending seven hundred and sixty feet from the shore line. It is forty- six feet wide from the outer end to a point inshore four hundred and thirty feet where it gradually narrows down to twenty-one feet. The upper part of the structure was used by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Coal trains came over it to deliver coal through chutes to barges…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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