Claim of Kowalek v. New York Consolidated Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, New York Consolidated Railroad Company, from a decision and award of the State Industrial Commission, filed in the office of said Commission on the 7th day of May, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
H. T. Kellogg, J.:
The deceased was killed at about eight-thirty-eight p. m. on September 20, 1918, by a current of electricity received from the third rail on a railway of the appellant at Rockaway Park station. The station consisted of a platform 300 feet long, elevated 5 feet above the ground, together with a building at its extreme westerly end, which contained, among other rooms, an office for the dispatcher and a room for train crews. Railway tracks came into the station upon each side of the platform, and were joined by a crossover track a short distance to the west of the station…
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