Delaware, L. & W. R. v. Devore
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United .States for the Southern District of New York. Writ of error to review a judgment rendered by the circuit court for the Southern district of New York upon a verdict against the Delaware, Lacka-wanna & Western Railroad Company for the sum of §10,000 in favor of the plaintiff in an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him at a grade crossing known as “Hope Crossing,” on the line of the defendant’s railroad in…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United .States for the Southern District of New York. Writ of error to review a judgment rendered by the circuit court for the Southern district of New York upon a verdict against the Delaware, Lacka-wanna & Western Railroad Company for the sum of §10,000 in favor of the plaintiff in an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him at a grade crossing known as “Hope Crossing,” on the line of the defendant’s railroad in New Jersey, on the evening of November 22, 1892.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
At the time of the inj’ury the plaintiff was about one year and four months old. Plis parents had been living at Wallpack, N. J. On the morning of November 22, 1892, they drove from their home with this child to Belvidere, N. J., a distance of about 26 miles from Wallpack, and about 6 o’clock in the evening started to return home. On their way to Belvidere they had crossed the railroad track at Hope crossing, but Mrs. Devore (now Mrs. Heater) bad never driven on that road before, and did not know that her husband had, and did not know the name of the railroad which they…
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