Legal Opinion
Schneller v. Ninth Avenue Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 4, 1927Published
1Opinion of the CourtProskauer, J.
Plaintiffs’ intestate was killed by contact with a south-bound car operated by defendant on Amsterdam avenue in the neighborhood of One Hundred and Fourteenth street. There was an excavation on the east side of the avenue near the curb. A bridge over this excavation had been placed directly at the north crosswalk of One Hundred and Fourteenth street. Decedent and two companions came from a building on the east side of Amsterdam avenue between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Hundred and Fifteenth streets and proceeded southwesterly across Amsterdam avenue. They did not use the crosswalk…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Unger v. Belt Line Railway Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1922
- Ploxin v. . Brooklyn Heights Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
- Ploxin v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- Hinz v. Eighth Avenue Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1926