Gausmann v. New York Central & H. R. R. R. Co.
New York County Courts
Appeal from the City Court of the city of Kingston, from a judgment rendered upon a trial before the city judge without a jury, in favor of the plaintiff-respondent.
1Opinion of the CourtCantine, J.
Mabel Gausmann, the wife of the respondent, together with her trunk, was carried by the appellant from Kingston to Bogota, and arrived at the latter station upon the same train about noon. Mrs. Gausmann inquired of the station agent for an expressman and, being told there was none present, but that one could be obtained at Leona, a distance of some two and a half miles, Mrs. Gausmann went to that place and, at about three o’clock in the afternoon, employed an expressman to get the trunk. It was the custom of the appellant to close its station at six o’clock in the afternoon. The evidence does…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Burnell v. . the New York Central R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Moffat v. Long Island RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Kressin v. Central RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907