English v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The New York Central and Hudson Biver Bailroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 19th day of October, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for. $10,625, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of October, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The appeal is from a judgment and order based on a verdict awarding the plaintiff damages for the death of her intestate, Edward English. It appears that he was injured at about forty-seven minutes after ten o’clock on the evening of July 3, 1907, while trying to board a moving train leaving defendant’s *182station at Tarrytown, N. Y., and that he died a few hours afterwards from the injuries. Between five and six o’clock in the evening, English, accompanied by his daughter, a child five years of age, and his stepdaughter, fifteen years of age, visited the defendant’s station at…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Black v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Button v. . the Hudson River Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Weitzman v. Nassau Electric RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad v. CooperIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
- Wells v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898