New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Winter's Administrator
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT. OF MASSACHUSETTS. The court stated the case as follows; - This was an action by David T. Winter, a citizen of Massachusetts, against the. New York, Lake Erie and Western Bail-road Company, a New York corporation, to recover damages for having been put off the defendant’s,train while a passenger' thereon between Binghamton and Salamanca, New York.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT. OF MASSACHUSETTS. The court stated the case as follows; - This was an action by David T. Winter, a citizen of Massachusetts, against the. New York, Lake Erie and Western Bail-road Company, a New York corporation, to recover damages for having been put off the defendant’s,train while a passenger' thereon between Binghamton and Salamanca, New York. It was commenced in a state court of Massachusetts, and was afterwards, upon the application of the defendant, removed into the proper Federal court, on the. grounds .of diverse…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lajviae
There were eleven assignments of error originally, based upon certain exceptions to the rulings of the court during the progress of the trial,- but in the brief of counsel for plaintiff, in error they have been reduced to- eight.- As the only one of thése exceptions that was properly saved, under oúr rules,- was that relating to the admission of .evidence as to what the ticket agent at Boston said to the plaintiff when he purchased his 'ticket,'we would, perhaps, be justified in limiting our consideration to; that point. Aside from this informality or .defect in the exceptions saved, however,…
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