Sprong v. . Boston Albany R.R. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon an order denying motion for a new trial and directing judgment upon verdict. This action was. brought to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Charles H. Sprong, alleged to have been caused by negligence of defendant. Sprong was in the employ of defendant as head brakeman.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon an order denying motion for a new trial and directing judgment upon verdict. This action was. brought to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Charles H. Sprong, alleged to have been caused by negligence of defendant. Sprong was in the employ of defendant as head brakeman. On the morning of the 3d of February, 1870, before five o’clock, he left East Albany as head brakeman of a freight train of eleven or twelve cars, drawn…
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] In Flike, Administrator, v. The Boston and Albany RailroadCompany (53 N.Y., 549), which was also an action against the defendant in this action to recover damages for the defendant's negligence in causing the death of the plaintiff's intestate, a fireman on the same train on which Sprong, the plaintiff's intestate in this action, was, and who was killed by the same collision, two questions, also involved in this case, were decided: First, that the evidence…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Flike v. . Boston and Albany R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1873
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- Criswell v. Railway Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1888
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