Reynolds v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Niagara on the 25th day of March, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff, a young man nineteen and one-half years of age, in the employ of the defendant as an extra brakeman, jumped off the running board of an engine on which he was at work, about seven-thirty o’clock in the morning of September 18, 1909, in the vicinity of La Salle, in the county of Niagara, and under the direction of the engineer of the train, and he fell and was run over by the train and his leg was crushed so that it had to he amputated, and he charges that the defendant was responsible for his injuries.
The plaintiff had been reared on a farm until he was seventeen or…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Solomon v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Northern Pacific Railroad v. EgelandSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Mearns v. Central Railroad of New JerseyNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Hunter v. . C. S.V.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Hallock v. New York, Ontario & Western Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1910
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