Legal Opinion

RYAN v. NEW YORK, N. H. & H. R. Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York

Decided February 10, 1902PublishedCited by 5 opinions

At Law.

1Opinion of the Court

WHEELER, District Judge.

The defendant furnished and hauled a car loaded with concrete by a contractor building piers in the defendant’s yard at Harlem for an overhead highway bridge across *198the yard, being built by the city; the concrete to be unloaded wet, and put down about the foundation of a pier by the contractor’s men, of whom the plaintiff was one. The car had heavy flap doors at the sides, which turned up under beveled hooks to catch and hold them up for unloading. While the car was being unloaded, one of the doors fell, .and struck the plaintiff (who was sprinkling the concrete .as it…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Beard v. Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers R. R.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1875
  2. Kowalewska v. New York, Lake Erie & Western RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1893

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Jackson v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1947
  2. Lovell v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1906
  3. Butler v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1911
  4. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. W. E. Williams, Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1957
  5. Chicago, Rock Island And Pacific Railroad Company v. W. E. WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1957

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