Legal Opinion
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company v. Mary L. Donnelly Henagan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 27, 1959No. 5511_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Chief Judge.
On October 11, 1954, the plaintiff-ap-pellee was employed by the defendant-appellant as a grill-car waitress on its regularly scheduled passenger train which left Boston at 7 A.M. bound for New York. As the train, proceeding at 12 to 15 miles per hour, entered the Providence, Rhode Island, railroad station about an hour later, the engineer made an emergency application of the brakes in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid running over a woman who stepped from the station platform onto the tracks in front of the locomotive, obviously and conced-edly for the purpose of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Rogers v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Herdman v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Harris v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by8 opinions
- In Re Marine Sulphur Transport Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1970
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. HenaganSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Magnat Corporation v. B & B Electroplating Co., Inc., B & B Electroplating Co., Inc. v. Magnat CorporationCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1966
- Waterman Steamship Corp. v. Federico Marin Gutierrez, LibelantCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1962
- Stanley Barboza v. Texaco, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1970
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