Hyatt v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Hew York Central and Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Putnam on the 26th day of Hovember, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $125, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of December, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
On May 31, 1913, the plaintiff purchased from defendant’s ticket agent at Towners, N. Y., a ticket from that station to White Plains, N. Y., and at about twelve-fifteen o’clock in the afternoon boarded a train for his destination. When the train *368reached Dykeman’s, where it stopped, one of the defendant’s employees, a telegraph operator in the switch tower near that station, entered the car in which plaintiff was seated, told him that he was wanted at the depot, and led him from the car to the station building, where he was detained by the telegraph operator and defendant’s ticket…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Daniel v. RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
- Lynch v. Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1882
- Mulligan v. New York & Rockaway Beach Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Mayfield v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
- Penny v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
3Cited by1 opinion
- Vittorio v. St. Regis Paper Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1924