Skelka v. Metropolitan Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
Plaintiff Ernest Skelka suffered severe personal injuries when he was either pushed or stepped from defendants’ train as it was leaving the Patchogue station in Long Island. Although Skelka testified at the trial that he was pushed from the train by a trainman as it was moving, other evidence adduced at the trial by him and defendants indicated that the trainman induced him to step from the moving vehicle. On appeal from an interlocutory judgment in favor of Skelka and his wife after a bifurcated jury trial on the issue of liability, defendants assert that under…
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