Usher v. New York Cent. & H. R. R.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal.from trial term, Rockland county. Action by John H. Usher against the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHirschberg, J.
The action is brought to recover damages for the breach of a contract by which the plaintiff claims that the defendant employed him to work for life at a monthly compensation of $35, or about half pay. There was evidence from which the jury was justified in concluding that such a contract was entered into on June 6, 1895, between the plaintiff and William G. Watson, now deceased, then superintendent of the Hudson River Division of one of the defendant’s railroads. The plaintiff had been injured the previous March while in the defendant’s employ as brakeman, the injury resulting in the…
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