Sheridan v. Brooklyn City & Newtown Railroad
New York Court of Appeals
This was an action under the statute brought by the Plaintiff as administrator of Dennis Sheridan, deceased, to recover damages for the wrongful acts of the Defendants, which resulted in the death of the deceased. The Plaintiff recovered at the Circuit, and the judgment was affirmed at the General Term of the second district. The facts are more fully stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
This is an action by the administrator of a boy nine years of age, against the Defendants, a company running a horse railroad in Brooklyn, for causing the death of the boy by the negligence and misconduct of the Defendants.
On the loth of September, 1864, the deceased having paid his fare, was seated with a companion of his own age in the interior of a car of the Defendants. The car began to fill up with passengers, and the conductor ordered the boys to get up and make room for adult passengers. They went forward in the car, and took other seats, and were again ordered up, and, objecting to…
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