Burton v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motions in both cases by the respective plaintiffs, Lucinda Burton and Cora B. Heeren, for a new trial upon a case containing exceptions ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance upon the denial of plaintiffs’ motions to go to the jury upon all the issues in the actions on a trial in March, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
■ The facts in the above cases are practically identical, and they were tried together. There is no dispute about the material facts.. The plaintiffs, mother and daughter, residents of Franklin, Penn., purchased tickets froin the defendant at that ■point, entitling them to passage from Franklin to New York city, by way of Ashtabula, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the New York Central and Hudson River railroads, on the 8th day of May, 1908. While passengers upon the ■defendant’s train, and at or near Erie, Penn., the plaintiffs purchased sleeping car berth No. 1, and…
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