Styler v. Long Island Railroad

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial upon the minutes of the court. The action is for the recovery of damages resulting from a personal injury to the plaintiff, by reason of the negligence of the defendant. The testimony upon the trial was contradictory; that on the part of the plaintiff making a cause of action for him, and that on the part of the defendant sufficient to exculpate the company. It was therefore a proper case for the jury, and the trial judge submitted the same in a charge…