Legal Opinion
Crough v. New York Central Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 30, 1930PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Per curiam
About one mile east of the village of Cayuga, N. Y., the Lehigh Valley railroad and defendant’s railroad run easterly and westerly substantially parallel with each other. At a highway grade crossing where the railroads are forty-eight feet apart, plaintiff’s intestate, D. Francis Crough, drove his automobile northerly across the tracks, and he and three young companions were killed by a westerly-bound New York Central train. Verdicts have been fffiected in favor of defendants in each of two actions brought by administrators under the Decedent Estate Law (§ 130 et seq., as added by Laws of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Chamberlain v. . Lehigh Valley R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1924
- Foley v. . N.Y. Central H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Castle v. . Director-General of RailroadsNew York Court of Appeals · 1922
- Matutinovich v. New York Central RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1918
- Horton v. New York Central RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1922
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Crough v. New York Central R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1932
- Carolan v. VenechanosAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1932