Pierce v. New York Central Railroad

This is an appeal by the defendants New York Central Railroad Company and the City of Rensselaer from a judgment in favor of plaintiff against both defendants for $5,386.50, and from an order denying defendants’. motions for a dismissal of the complaint. The action was brought to recover, damages for personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff while descending the stairway of a footbridge over the tracks of the defendant railroad at Second avenue, Rensselaer, N. Y. The evidence does not clearly disclose how the accident occurred. The infant plaintiff, then between five and six years…