Beisiegel v. New York Central Railroad
New York Court of Appeals
This was an appeal from, a judgment ordered "by the General Term of the Supreme Court in the seventh judicial district, upon a verdict for $10,000 in favor of the plaintiff, against the defendant, for injuries sustained by him from alleged negligence. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the following opinion of Geoveb and James, J. J. Geo.
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This was an appeal from, a judgment ordered "by the General Term of the Supreme Court in the seventh judicial district, upon a verdict for $10,000 in favor of the plaintiff, against the defendant, for injuries sustained by him from alleged negligence. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the following opinion of Geoveb and James, J. J. Geo. F. Dam forth, for respondent, cited, itpon the question of the plaintiff’s negligence in not looking, Ernst v. Hudson River Railroad Compamy (1 Keyes, 36, 37); Beisiegel v. New York Central Railroad Company (34 N. Y., 625). TJpon the obligation…
1Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff was entitled to recover (if at all) for the time lost in consequence of the injury received, and to show what it would have been worth to him. What he was earning at his trade at the time of and immediately preceding the injury tended to show the value of his labor, and was therefore proper for the consideration of the jury in determining the value of the plaintiff's time lost by the injury.
The motion for a nonsuit was based upon the grounds, First, that there was no evidence of negligence of the defendant or its servants. Second, that the evidence showed that the plaintiff was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brown v. . New York Central Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1866
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