Legal Opinion
Williams v. New Jersey-New York Transit Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 18, 1940No. 359PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
Defendant appeals from a judgment for the plaintiff awarding her damages for personal injuries, suffered while she was a passenger in the defendant’s bus. She boarded the bus at Union City, New Jersey, and sat down in the second seat on the right-hand side of the aisle; a fellow passenger was beside her, nearer the window. Shortly after she was seated, he arose from his seat and put a brief case, which he had been holding in his lap, in the baggage rack overhead. After the bus had gone about a mile, this fell down and struck the *650plaintiff on the right side of her head,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Lafflin v. . Buffalo Southwestern R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Kingsley v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1911
- Feil v. West Jersey & Seashore RailroadSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1909
- Traphagen v. Erie RailroadSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1906
- Leech v. Hudson & Manhattan RailroadSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1934
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Montgomery Ward & Co. v. DuncanSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Montgomery v. Virginia Stage Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- The Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Robert Livingston Pomeroy, of the Estate of Elizabeth Eagan PomeroyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
- Ross v. Pennsylvania R.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1947
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