Hildebrant v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Lehigh Valley 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 Ontario on the 10th day of October, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,916.08, and also from an order entered in said office on the 15th day of October, 1912, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Robson, J.:
Plaintiff’s testator was, at the time of receiving the injuries which resulted in his death, a freight conductor in defendant’s service. Shortly after midnight on the lfth day of February, 1910, he, together with an engineer, fireman and two brakemen, forming a freight train crew, was directed to take from defendant’s Manchester yards an east-bound freight train, *829which appears to have been then completely made up with the exception that it still lacked the locomotive. The engineer then in charge of a locomotive, to the operation of which he was assigned on this occasion, backed it…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co v. CollinsIndiana Supreme Court · 1907
- Kent v. Jamestown Street Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1912
- Simons v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
- Eagen v. . Buffalo Union Terminal R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1911
3Cited by1 opinion
- Hildebrandt v. Lehigh Valley R.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913