Meinrenken v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal - by the defendant, The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor, of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of .the county of New York on the 28th day of March, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 23d day of April, 1902, denying the. defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a statutory action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, ivhich it is alleged was caused by the defendant’s negligence. The defendant owns and operates a railroad along the easterly shore of the Hudson river from West Thirtieth street to Spuyten Duyvil, consisting of two main tracks with a siding upon either side crossing One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street. There are public highway crossings at grade at One Hundred and Thirty-fourth and One Hundred and Thirty-eighth streets. Between these points there is no intersecting street crossing, and the tracks run…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Heaney v. . Long Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Piper v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Koehler v. Rochester & Lake Ontario RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1893
- Vahue v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
3Cited by7 opinions
- Todd v. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1915
- Cochran's Administrators v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1929
- Meinrenken v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- Buffalo Fertilizer Co. v. Town of CheektowagaNew York Supreme Court · 1908
- Meinrenken v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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