Case Name: Lansing H. Keeler, as Administrator of the Estate of Lansing J. P. Keeler, Deceased, Appellant, v. Long Island Rail Road Company, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1949-04-20
Citations: 299 N.Y. 621
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lansing H. Keeler, as Administrator of the Estate of Lansing J. P. Keeler, Deceased, Appellant, v. Long Island Rail Road Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 299
Pages: 621–622

Head Matter:
Lansing H. Keeler, as Administrator of the Estate of Lansing J. P. Keeler, Deceased, Appellant, v. Long Island Rail Road Company, Respondent.
Argued October 13, 1948;
decided April 20, 1949.
Reuben L. Hashell for appellant.
Andrew F. Van Thun, Jr., Ralph E. Memstreet and William J. 0 ’Bfien for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Desmond, Fuld and Bromley, JJ. Conway and Dye, JJ., dissent and vote to reverse and grant a new trial upon the following grounds: (1) that there was a question of fact presented as to whether the accident was one which should reasonably have been foreseen by the defendant, (2) that there was a question of fact as to whether the covering of the third rail was adequate in view of the fact that plaintiff's intestate was crossing from a path closely paralleling this dangerous death-dealing instrumentality alongside railroad tracks in which grass and weeds had been permitted to grow, and (3) that it was error to exclude proof of a prior similar accident within 300 feet of the place of the instant accident in which another boy had been injured under similar circumstances.