Hammill v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lippincott, J.

This was an action by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover damages for injuries occasioned by the alleged negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff contended that the proximate cause of the accident and consequent injuries to him was the neglect of the defendant, the railroad company, to give the statutory signal of the approach of its train towards the crossing over the railroad tracks at First street, in the town of Harrison, in the county ■of Hudson.

The plaintiff, at the time of the accident to him, was standing on a…