Knapp v. New York, New Haven and Hartford R.R

Full title: Coleman J. Knapp, as Administrator, etc., of George H. Knapp, Deceased…

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Apr 1, 1910

138 App. Div. 890 (N.Y. App. Div. 1910)

Opinion

April, 1910.

Judgment and order reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide the event, upon the ground that there is no evidence that the decedent either looked or listened before he went upon the railroad track, and that it affirmatively appears that if he had so looked or if he had so listened he might have seen or heard the approaching train and avoided the accident which resulted in his death. ( Harrison v. N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co., 195 N.Y. 90; Wieland v. Delaware Hudson Canal Co., 167 id. 26.) Burr, Thomas, Rich and Carr, JJ., concurred; Hirschberg, P.J., dissented.