Legal Opinion
Hoffman v. Palmer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 31, 1942No. 261PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, as trustees in reorganization of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, appeal from a judgment, entered upon a jury verdict, awarding $25,077.35 to the plaintiff in his individual capacity and $9,000 to him as administrator of his wife’s estate. The action grew out of an accident which occurred at a grade crossing of the appellant railroad in West Stockbridge, Mass. On December 25, 1940, at about 6:15 P. M., the plaintiff was driving a Ford coupe, with his wife as a passenger, at this crossing, when the car was struck by a locomotive engine,…
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