Park v. New York Cent. & H. R. Railroad
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Onondaga county. Action by Thomas E. Park against the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company for personal injuries. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial made on the minutes, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMerwin, J.
The recovery in this case is for damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason, as he claims, of the negligence of the defendant. On the 21st November, 1891, the plaintiff was, and had been for a number of years, in the employ of the defendant as a locomotive engineer. On the evening of that day he was the engineer upon a mail express train that left Syracuse at 8:25, eastward bound on track No. 1. The train passed Oanastota about 9 o’clock, and when about a mile east of that place it ran into a freight train of the defendant, going eastward on the same track, but which was then stalled in…
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2Cases cited10 opinions
- Baulec v. . New York Harlem R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Davis v. Detroit & Milwaukee Rail RoadMichigan Supreme Court · 1870
- Coppins v. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R.New York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. StupakIndiana Supreme Court · 1890
- Norfolk & Western Railroad v. HooverCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1894
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- Baird v. New York Cent. & H. R. RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897