Cook v. Long Island R.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, New York county. Action by Catharine Cook against the Long Island Railroad Company. From a judgment rendered on a verdict for plaintiff, and an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPatterson, J.
This action was brought to recover damages for injuries to the person of the plaintiff, a passenger on the defendant’s railway, which injuries it is alleged were caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants in .charge of and operating a train which the plaintiff was about entering at a station on the line of the road. At the circuit the plaintiff had a' verdict, and from the judgment entered thereon, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, the defendant appeals; claiming that the complaint should have been dismissed at the close of the plaintiff’s proofs, or, at all…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dillon v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1888