New York, N. H. & H. R. v. Lincoln
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on writ of error to the United States District Court for1 the Southern District of New York on a judgment entered on a verdict in the said court on December 23, 1914, in favor of plaintiff and against defendant.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on writ of error to the United States District Court for1 the Southern District of New York on a judgment entered on a verdict in the said court on December 23, 1914, in favor of plaintiff and against defendant. The plaintiff below, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, was and is a citizen of the state of New York, and at the time the accident occurred was a commuter residing in New Rochelle, N. Y. The defendant below, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was and is a foreign…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The plaintiff is a commuter on defendant’s railroad, and was injured at the Grand Central Terminal in the city of New York in attempting to alight from one of defendant’s cars. The station in question was constructed for the new style of cars, vestibule cars, from which passengers can step from the car platform directly to the station platform, there being only a space of a few inches between the two platforms. But when the old style of cars come into the station there is a distance of three feet between the platform of the station and the platform of such…
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