Wood v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, William P. Wood, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Steuben on the’ITth day of January, ■1903, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Steuben Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
On the 26th day of April, 1902, the plaintiff, a young man twenty-one years of age, was riding in a buggy with his father along Chestnut street in the city of Corning. The buggy was drawn by one horse which the plaintiff was driving and which was owned by him and was steady and gentle. The defendant’s tracks, five in number,' cross Chestnut street, and the view of a train approaching from the west is cut off to a traveler going south along this street. On the day in question there were cabooses on the two northerly lines of track numbered 1 and 2, and these cabooses came close *606to…
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