Case Name: Mary L. Haycroft, Respondent, v. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1876-02-15
Citations: 64 N.Y. 636
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary L. Haycroft, Respondent, v. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 64
Pages: 636–637

Head Matter:
Mary L. Haycroft, Respondent, v. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, Appellant.
(Argued February 8, 1876;
decided February 15, 1876.)
This was an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff in consequence of being struck by an engine of defendant at a street-crossing. (Reported below, 2 Hun, 489.).
Plaintiff, a girl sixteen years old, was passing along a street in the city of Buffalo, going south, across defendant’s tracks (five in number). She had crossed two of these tracks. She looked both ways, and saw a train approaching from the east, on the fifth track. She stopped for this train to pass, standing between the second and third tracks, within about a foot of the third. She had been standing thus a short time, and, about as the train she was watching passed, she was struck and injured by the tender of a locomotive backing up from the west, on the third track, which gave no warning, by ringing a bell or sounding a whistle, of its approach. The plaintiff was nonsuited at the Circuit, on the ground of contributory negligence. Held, error; that the question was one of fact for the jury.
A. P. Laning for the appellant.
C. D. Murray for the respondent.

Opinion:
Miller, J.,
reads for affirmance of order and for judgment absolute against defendant on stipulation.
All concur; Andrews, J., not sitting.
Order affirmed and judgment accordingly