Case ID: nys_153/html/1150-11.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. THOMAS, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WINNE, Respondent, v. ERIE R. CO., Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
    June 4, 1915.)
    Action by Josephine O. Winne, as ancillary administratrix of Claude J. Winne, deceased, against the Erie Railroad Company.
   PER CURIAM.

The parties hereto having stipulated in open court that this case may be dispose"! of by a court of four, the decision is as follows: Judgment and order affirmed, with

costs.

THOMAS, J.,

dissents, upon the ground that there was no jurisdiction on the part of the surrogate to grant the ancillary letters, and also upon the ground that the case does not come under the federal Employers’ Liability Act (Act April 22, 1908, c. 149, 35 Stat. 65 [U. S. Comp. St. 1913, §§ 8657-8665]).