Kring 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 River Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 10th day of April, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,000 ; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of April, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s…
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Appeal by the defendant, The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 10th day of April, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,000 ; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of April, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of May, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the ground of…
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, J.:
The action was commenced on the 1.3th day of September, 1898, to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant.
*374On the 13th day of November, 1898, between five and six o’clock on the afternoon of that day, the plaintiff, who was then about eleven years of age, boarded a train of the defendant known as the -De Witt Special, as it was passing through the eastern part of the -■city of Syracuse. It is conceded that the plaintiff was a trespasser '•«upon the train, boarded it without right or authority, and solely for -the…
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