Smith v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Lehigh Valley Bailroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of' the clerk of the county of Ontario on the 20th day of December, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of October, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The judgment and order appealed from should be affirmed, with costs.
*48The action was brought to recover damages resulting from the death of plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The death resulted from a crossing accident at Farmington. station, about twenty-five miles from Rochester, H. Y., in the open country, the highway- crossing the railroad tracks nearly at right, angles. The accident occurred about midnight February 24, 1900. The carriage in which the intestate was riding when struck by the defendant’s train was a covered…
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