Shaw v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
.Appeal by the plaintiff, N. Archibald' Sháw, Jr., as administrator, etc., of. Mary E. Eowlks, deceased^ from a judgment of the Supreme Court in. favor of the defendant, entered in thé ■ office of the clerk of the county of Columbia on the lath day of June, .1904, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Columbia Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
This action is brought to recover damages for causing the death of -the plaintiff’s intestate; IT pan the trial the plaintiff’s letters of admin*247istration were introduced in evidence and thereafter upon motion stricken out. The complaint has apparently been dismissed for the reason that the plaintiff has not shown himself entitled to bring the action.
After the introduction by plaintiff of his letters of administration, the .defendant introduced the petition upon which those letters were granted. That petition purported to have been verified before a notary public in the county of New…
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