Case ID: nys_142/html/1125-12.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CTJRIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

KIDD, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CENT. & H. R. R. CO., Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, `Appellate Division, Second Department.
    July 25, 1913.)
    Action by John Kidd, as executor, etc., of George W. Wait, deceased, against the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company.
   PER CTJRIAM.

Judgment and order reversed, and new trial granted, costs to abide the event. On the issue of warning signals from defendant's train, the outside testimony of a large number of disinterested witnesses supports the affirmative evidence of the engineer and fireman. There was no substantial issue raised by negative testimony from observers in a position to hear and see, and who were attentive to the train's approach. Plaintiff's testimony was therefore overborne by that of defendant upon the vital issue of defendant's signals, and the want of care by plaintiff's testator in driving his motor car upon the crossing in front of the train. Hence the motion to set aside the verdict, as against the weight of evidence, should have been granted.