Legal Opinion
Goodwin v. City of New York
City of New York Municipal Court
Decided October 20, 1954Published
1Opinion of the CourtQuinn, J.
It was New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1952, at about 11:30 p.m., when the plaintiff, Frances Goodwin, a young, unmarried lady, twenty years of age, accompanied by a male escort, boarded a southbound train of the defendant at the 181st Street station on the west side, I. E. T. division of the New York City transit system.
This ten-car train of the defendant was manned by a crew of two: a motorman and a conductor.
The duties of the conductor in the normal operation of the train were carried out from his post between the first and second cars. In the course of training for his employment he had been…
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- Thompson v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1894
- Duner v. Hudson & Manhattan RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1942
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