Case Name: Adelbert E. Ireland, Resp't, v. G. Clinton Gardner, as Receiver of the Buff., N. Y. & P. R. R. Co., App'lt
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1889-10-19
Citations: 26 N.Y. St. Rep. 895
Docket Number: 
Parties: Adelbert E. Ireland, Resp’t, v. G. Clinton Gardner, as Receiver of the Buff., N. Y. & P. R. R. Co., App’lt.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 26
Pages: 895–898

Head Matter:
Adelbert E. Ireland, Resp’t, v. G. Clinton Gardner, as Receiver of the Buff., N. Y. & P. R. R. Co., App’lt.
(Supreme Court, General Term, Fifth Department,
Filed October 19, 1889.)
Master and servant — Railroad brakeman — Negligence.
Plaintiff while uncoupling cars on defendant’s road caught his foot in a frog and was thrown down and run over, causing amputation of a leg and arm. In an action to recover for such injui les, Eeld,_ that the submission of the case to the jury to find a verdict for plaintiff, on the sole ground that the guard rail was not blocked, was error.
(Macomber, J., dissenting.)
Appeal from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff on the verdict of a jury, for $30,000, for personal injuries rendered at the Monroe circuit, and from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
The facts appear in the dissenting opinion.
William S. Oliver, for resp’t; John A. Milburn, for app’lt.

Opinion:
The majority of the court held that the submission of the case to the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff upon the sole ground that the guard rail was not blocked, was error, under the case of Appel v. The Railroad Co., 111 N. Y., 550; 20 N. Y. State Rep., 90.