Burns v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

This was an action for personal injuries in which the plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for $100 damages. The injuries were received through a defect in the planking of a public bridge over the Morris canal at Jersey avenue, in Jersey City. Plaintiff, on the day in question, had occasion to cross and shortly afterwards to return over the bridge as a foot passenger; it was while returning that lie was injured. Employes of the defendant were at the time engaged in repairing the planking. The bridge is of the type known as a “lift…