Keeler v. New York Central
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The New York Central and Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme.
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Appeal by the defendants, The New York Central and Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme. Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 23d day of October, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,000, and also separate appeals from orders entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th and 16th days of November, 1905, denying the defendants’ respective motions for a new trial made upon the minutes. The original plaintiff, Agnes May Keeler, as administratrix of Thaddeus B. Keeler, deceased, died after…
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The action is for negligence. On October 30, 1902, a signal company was at work upon a contract with the defendants. The plaintiffs’ intestate, a qualified electrical engineer, was the superintendent of construction for the signal company. The work hid been doing for two months on the elevated fabric of the defendants near the Harlem Eiver bridge. . This fabric bore four tracks on which daily 600 regular trains passed "to and from the city of New York. The intestate had worked at this place in 1896 and 1897, and he had attended this work off and on almost every day for the two…
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