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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph Helman, an Infant, by John Helman, His Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. International Railway Company, Appellant.
    
      Negligence — railroads — carriers — collision between two cars of defendant railroad — action by passenger to recover for injuries received.
    
    
      Helman v. International Ry. Co., 214 App. Div. 763, affirmed.
    (Argued March 2, 1926;
    decided April 7, 1926.)
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered May 27, 1925, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. The injuries were sustained as the result of a collision between two cars of defendant, in one of which plaintiff was riding as a passenger Defendant admitted liability and the only issue tried and submitted to the jury was that of damages.
    
      Noel S. Symons, John J. K. Caskie and Raymond C. Vaughan for appellant.
    
      William J. Flynn for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Pound, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Dissenting: Hiscock, Ch. J., McLaughlin and Crane, JJ., on ground of errors in charge.