Case Name: BURKE v. NEW YORK CENT. & H. R. R. CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1914-11-11
Citations: 150 N.Y.S. 1078
Docket Number: 
Parties: BURKE v. NEW YORK CENT. & H. R. R. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 150
Pages: 1078–1079

Head Matter:
BURKE v. NEW YORK CENT. & H. R. R. CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
November 11, 1914.)
Action by David E. Burke, an infant, etc. against the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Defendant's exceptions sustained, order denying motion to set aside the verdict reversed, verdict set aside, and verdict directed for the defendant, with costs in this court and the trial court. Held, defendant owed no duty to the plaintiff to mark the rear end of its train with lights, and was nob guilty of negligence as to the plaintiff if it failed to do so. Plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as matter of law.
KRUSE, P. J., dissents, upon the ground that the defendant's negligence, as well as the plaintiff's contributory negligence, were questions of fact under the evidence.