Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Stojanowski
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court, of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Action at law by John Stojanowski against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. .Writ of error to review a judgment in favor of the defendant in error in an action to recover damages for personal injuries. In the opinion following the parties are designated as in the court below.
1Opinion of the Court
NOYES, Circuit Judge.
[1] With respect to the jurisdictional
question: In our opinion the defendant, a foreign corporation, was “doing business” in the state of New York in the sense that liability to service was incurred and there was no error in the action of the trial court in denying its motion to set aside the service of the summons. Sleicher v. Pullman Co. (C. C.) 170 Fed. 365, is directly in point.
[2] Taking up the assignments of error, the only one to which we think it necessary to direct especial attention is based upon the ruling excluding the railroad train sheet offered by the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Pennsylvania Co. v. RoySupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Insurance Co. v. RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
- Donovan v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. DanielCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1906
- Big River Lead Co. v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1907
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- Kings County Lighting Co. v. NixonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1920
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