St. John v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

The plaintiff seeks to recover of the defendant damages for injuries received on the 29th day of November, 1896, while crossing the tracks of the latter at University avenue, in the city of Rochester. The avenue at that point crosses some fifteen tracks of the defendant at an angle.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon of the day in question the plaintiff and his friend, Johnson French, sought to cross the tracks of the defendant on University avenue, approaching the same from the north. After crossing a number of dead and switch tracks, the plaintiff, in advance of his friend, who had…