Legal Opinion

Pier v. Finch

New York Supreme Court

Decided March 7, 1859PublishedCited by 3 opinions

APPEAL from a judgment entered at the circuit, upon a verdict for the plaintiff. It is the same case reported in 24 Barb. 514. Upon another trial at the Steuben circuit, in January, 1858, the plaintiff recovered a verdict for $150, upon which judgment was entered. The defendants appealed from that judgment.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court, Welles, J.

The only question in this case worthy of consideration, arises upon the offer of the defendants to give certain evidence, and the decision of the circuit judge thereon, excepting what was disposed of in the plaintiff’s favor when this case was before us on a former occasion, on a motion to set aside the nonsuit, as above stated.

The offer of evidence, the overruling of which is now the principal subject of complaint, was to show certain regulations of the Sew York and Erie Eail Eoad Company; that such regulations were reasonable, and that the acts of the defendants,…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Atchison & Nebraska Railroad v. WashburnNebraska Supreme Court · 1876
  2. Bishop v. StevensNebraska Supreme Court · 1891
  3. Prall v. PetersNebraska Supreme Court · 1891

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