Case ID: njl_89/html/0363-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES KYSE, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. THE DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
    Submitted March 27, 1916
    Decided June 19, 1916.
    On appeal from the Supreme Court, in which the following per curiam was filed:
    “The plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s train, and had his hand injured by the closing of the car door for which he recovered a verdict of $350, and defendant appeals. The errors specified are refusal to nonsuit and to direct verdict for 'defendant.
    “From the evidence the jury might infer that plaintiff left his seat in the car as it vras running into the station at Chat-ham for the purpose of alighting; that he opened the door and pushed it over the catch put there for the purpose of holding it; that at this time the car gave a sudden jerk or lurch of sufficient force to throw plaintiff forward, and unloose the door from the catch; that to save himself from being forced to the platform of the car, he grabbed the door jamb and his fingers were caught by the door and injured; we think that if a slowly-moving car about to stop is suddenly given such a jerk as to throw a passenger forward so that he is compelled to grasp the door jamb to save himself from falling, and the force is sufficient to unloose a car door from a catch supposed to hold it in place in the ordinary operation of a train, a jury might properly infer negligent operation.
    “The judgment will he affirmed.”
    For the appellant, Frederic B. Scott.
    
    For the respondent, David F. Barkman.
    
   Per Curiam.

The judgment under review will be affirmed, for the reasons set forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court.

For affirmance—The Chancellor, Garrison, Trenchard, Parker, Minturn, Kalisch, Black, Terhune, Heppenheimer, Williams, Taylor, Gardner, JJ. 12.

For reversal—None.