Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Lehigh Valley R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 2, 1946No. 33, Docket 20192PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The appeal is from a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered on the verdict of a jury, reduced in accordance with the consent of the plaintiff to prevent the granting of defendant’s motion to set it aside as excessive.
The action was brought by the plaintiff, the widow of a brakeman employed by the defendant railroad, in her capacity as domiciliary administratrix under general letters of administration granted by the Surrogate’s Court of Hudson County, New Jersey within whose jurisdiction the plaintiff resides and resided with her…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Blair v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Union Pacific Railroad v. HadleySupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. Co. v. PrattCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1944
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. v. RichardsonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- Anne P. Kozar, Administratrix of the Estate of John P. Kozar, Deceased v. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1971
- Ohio-Sealy Mattress Manufacturing Co. v. Sealy, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978
- Markert v. Swift & Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1949
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