Legal Opinion

Parsons v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

New York Court of Appeals

Decided April 16, 1889PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The evidence in the case was, on some points, conflicting, but the jury were authorized to find, and, upon the defendant's appeal, we must presume that they found the facts in conformity with the plaintiff's proof. By this it appeared that the plaintiff's testator was run over and killed at the Ferry street station, in the city of Buffalo, by the engine of a freight train, belonging to the defendant, moving southerly at the rate of from twenty to thirty miles an…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Terry v. . JewettNew York Court of Appeals · 1879

3Cited by37 opinions

  1. Birmingham Railway L. & P. Co. v. JungSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
  2. Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. DresslerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1922
  3. Alabama G. S. Ry. Co. v. CogginsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1898
  4. Wharton v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1919
  5. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. HarrelsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1926

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