Gray v. Rochester City & Brighton Railroad
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court; Monroe county. Action by Bred R. Gray against the Rochester City & Brighton Railroad Company for personal injuries. From a judgment entered on a verdict for plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial made on the minutes of the court, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMacomber, J.
The plaintiff, while riding upon one of the defendant’s open cars, known as an “excursion-car,” was struck by another car, passing in the opposite direction, upon an adjacent track. At the time of this accident, which was in the middle of the afternoon of June 13, 1889, the plaintiff, with many others who crowded the car, was on his way to attend a base-ball game in the eastern part of the city of Rochester. He boarded the car opposite his store on Main street, near Cortland, where the same stopped for passengers. The seats of this car ran crosswise. As has already been stated, it was crowded…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Coleman v. . Second Ave. R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1889
3Cited by5 opinions
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- Byrne v. Brooklyn City & Newtown RailroadNew York City Court · 1893
- Herdt v. Rochester City & Brighton RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1892
- Gray v. Rochester City & B. R. Co.New York Supreme Court · 1892
- Sias v. Rochester Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1901