Legal Opinion
Ticknor v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 12, 1924PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Sears, J.:
The sole question upon this motion for a new trial relates to the alleged contributory negligence of the plaintiff’s intestate who was killed on December 28, 1921, by a train of the defendant while driving over a crossing shortly before noon on a clear, cold winter day. He was entirely familiar with the crossing, having passed over it twice almost every day for a number of months. At the time of the accident he was driving a team of horses harnessed to a bob-sleigh which he used to haul millc. There was a top over the driver’s seat and he was closed in with curtains, in which there…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Massoth v. President of Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Carr v. . Pennsylvania R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1918
- Horton v. . N.Y.C.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1923
- Barnasky v. New York, Ontario & Western Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1919
- Barry v. Rutland RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1922
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Salt City Express & Trucking Co. v. New York Central RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925