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holding that the danger of crossing railroad tracks is not so obvious as to prevent the issue of contributory negligence from reaching the jury
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Argued November 19, 1953
Decided February 25, 1954
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, PETTE, J.
William F. McNulty, Richard R. Bongartz and William J. O'Brien for Long Island Rail Road Company, appellant.
George W. Percy for Town of Southampton, appellant.
Bernard Meyerson, Henry M. Zaleski and Frank A. Jablonka for respondent.
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE, FULD and FROESSEL, JJ. LEWIS, Ch. J., and VAN VOORHIS, J., dissent in the following memorandum. In our view the judgment appealed from should be reversed and the complaint dismissed upon the ground that plaintiff's intestate was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law ( Wadsworth v. Delaware, L. W.R.R., 296 N.Y. 206, 212; Crough v. New York Central R.R. Co., 260 N.Y. 227; Schrader v. New York, C. St. L.R.R. Co., 254 N.Y. 148; Allen v. Erie R.R. Co., 244 N.Y. 542; Avery v. New York, O. W. Ry. Co., 205 N.Y. 502; Proefrock v. Denney, 258 App. Div. 5, affd. 283 N.Y. 648).