Sullivan v. Tioga Railroad
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff, entered at the Chemung Circuit upon the verdict of a jury, and from an order denying a motion made for a new trial at Special Term upon a case and exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, J:
Appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict, and form an order denying a motion for a new trial, made at Special Term, on a case.
In the yard of the Erie railroad, at Elmira, seventy feet south of the turn-table, there is an ash pit thirty feet long, four feet wide and two and one-half feet deep, sunk in the ground between the rails of a track leading from, the main track to this turn-table, into which pit ashes are dumped from locomotives. For a year before December 5, 1883, Michael' Sullivan was employed by the Erie railroad to shovel ashes from this-pit to a car standing beside…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Svenson v. . Atlantic Mail Steamship Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Sawyer v. Rutland & Burlington RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1855
- Zeigler v. Danbury & Norwalk RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
- Smith v. New York & Harlem RailroadThe Superior Court of New York City · 1856