Alberti v. N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Railroad
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the general term of the second department, affirming a judgment entered upon the verdict at the Orange circuit of $25,000.
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
This action was brought to recover damages for a personal injury.
In July, 1885, the plaintiff was a passenger upon the defendant’s express train, and was seated in one of the sleeping cars. When the train was near Oxford, in the county of Orange, it came into collision with a partially displaced door of a freight car going ' in the opposite direction, which broke the windows and the partition between them, at which the plaintiff was sitting. He was struck by the broken pieces of glass and timber and so injured that the muscles of the legs contracted in such a way as to draw both legs up…
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