Legal Opinion
Mays v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Decided April 13, 1950PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEder, J.
Plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s commuters’ train en route from the Grand Central station to his home in Greens Farms, Connecticut. He had a large pigskin wardrobe trunk in the parcel room at the station and engaged a redcap to take it from there and carry it into one of the cars of the train. He accompanied the redcap into the car. The trunk was too large to be placed in the overhead rack and plaintiff had the redcap place the trunk in the aisle alongside a seat the plaintiff was about to occupy.
The trunk impeded free use of the aisle as a passageway and a trainman or conductor who…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Osborn v. ClineNew York Court of Appeals · 1934
- Wentworth v. RiggsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
- Hasbrouck v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
- Reisinger v. Pullman Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937
- Mudgett v. Bay State Steamboat Co.New York Court of Common Pleas · 1861
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Rich v. Touche Ross & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1976
- Herrington v. VerrilliDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2001
- DeWeerth v. BaldingerDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1987
- Peralta v. Port of New York AuthorityCivil Court of the City of New York · 1971
- Rudolph v. Riverdale Management, Inc.City of New York Municipal Court · 1952
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