Legal Opinion
Dodd v. Central Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 13, 1910PublishedCited by 1 opinion
On appeal from the First District Court of Jersey City.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The plaintiff was employed as a porter by the United States Express Company. His duties were to handle freight, unload cars and assort freight at the Communipaw terminal of the Central Railroad Company. He was unloading a box ear which was next to. a platform. There *57was a plank extending from tlie car to another car on an adjoining track. A train backed down on this adjoining track and struck the car, which caused the plank to shift; it caught the plaintiffs foot and he was injured. The defence interposed grew out of two contracts, one…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. VoigtSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Southern Express Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Northern Pacific Railway Company v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Bates v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. KeeferIndiana Supreme Court · 1896
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Sheridan v. N.J. N.Y.R.R. Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1928