Cohen v. Long Island Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Long Island Railroad Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of March, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of April, 1912, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The plaintiff sues for and has recovered damages for the death of her intestate, her daughter, resulting, as it is alleged, from the negligence of the defendants. The accident, which resulted in death, occurred at a point in Queens county, within the limits of the city of New York, where the highway known as Woodhaven avenue crossed at grade the line of the defendant companies. Both the highway and the railway ran at a slightly descending grade to the point:of intersection, and the crossing was to an extent a blind one, because the corner which was at the natural grade served as a…
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