Hickenbottom v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the general term of the supreme court, in the first judicial department, affirming judgment entered on verdict in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
In October, 1885, at Newark, N. J., the plaintiff, while in the act of getting on board the defendant’s train of cars to return to the city of New York, where he resided, fell upon the track and received severe and permanent injuries. He charged that they were occasioned solely by the negligence of the defendant in not giving him a reasonable time to get on to the train before it was started. And upon that subject the evidence on the part of the plaintiff tended to prove that when he reached the train, and proceeded to get aboard, it was standing still at the station, that he stepped on to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Lyons v. . Erie Railway CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Crippen v. . MorssNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Brassell v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
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- Shaw v. TagueNew York Court of Appeals · 1931
- Myers v. . DeanNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Central Vermont Ry. Co. v. CaubleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1915
- Cullinan v. FurthmannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- Doherty v. LordNew York Supreme Court · 1894
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