Turck 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, fróm a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of .the county of Hlster on the 10th day of April, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,000, and also from, an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of April, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, P. J.:
The action was brought to recover damages for negligently causing the death of the plaintiff’s son. On the evening of July 25, 1903, the plaintiff’s son, Harry L. Turck, a young man nineteen years of age, and in possession of all his faculties, while riding in an automobile with another young man of about the same age, was struck , and killed, by a passenger train on the defendant’s raih’oad at a grade crossing just north of the city of Kingston. His companion also died as the result of injuries then received.
The highway upon which the accident occurred is a public highway known…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Young v. . N.Y., L.E. W.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Purdy v. New York Cent. & H. R. RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1895
- Waddell v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
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- Sherwood v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
- Zaun v. Long Island RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
- Turnier v. New York Central RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1925