Jaffy v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
New York Supreme Court
Action to recover for death.
1Opinion of the CourtMorschauser, J.
This is an action to recover damages arising out of the death of the plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been caused through the negligence of the defendant. At the close of the case both the plaintiff and the defendant moved for the direction of a verdict.
*148In 1879 the defendant purchased a plot of land on West Main street in the village -of Mount Kisco of about seventy-one feet by sixty-five feet. Upon this property the defendant built a reservoir near the street line and erected a solid masonry wall about twelve feet high on the southwest corner and twenty feet high on the lower southeast…
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- Beck v. . CarterNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
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- Walsh v. Fitchburg RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
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- Eason v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1951
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