Cox v. Delaware & Hudson Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary A. Cox, as administratrix, etc., from so much of a judgment of, the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk, of the county of Rensselaer on the-loth day of-October, 1906, as dismisses the complaint by direction of the court as to the defendant United Traction Company, after a trial at the Rensselaer Trial Term. • ’ “ Also an appeal by the defendant, The Delaware and Hudson Company, from that part of the said judgment which is in favor…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary A. Cox, as administratrix, etc., from so much of a judgment of, the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk, of the county of Rensselaer on the-loth day of-October, 1906, as dismisses the complaint by direction of the court as to the defendant United Traction Company, after a trial at the Rensselaer Trial Term. • ’ “ Also an appeal by the defendant, The Delaware and Hudson Company, from that part of the said judgment which is in favor of the plaintiff and against said defendant for $14,560, entered upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an -order…
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J. :
This is.an action to recover damages for the negligent killing of the plaintiff’s intestate. The defendant, the Delaware and Hudson Company, operates a steam railroad extending northerly and souths erly through the village of Green Island. Its tracks, five in number, are crossed in that village at right angles- and at grade by a single track of the defendant United Traction Company, which operates an electric street surface railroad. Sevepty-fonr feet westerly of this crossing is another crossing, but that seems to have no bearing on the questions involved herein. Deceased was a…
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