Court Opinion

ID: 5758549
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:10:33.784127+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:41:29.010881
License: Public Domain

Order unanimously reversed, without costs of these appeals to any party, and complaints dismissed, without costs. Memorandum: There were presented no issues of material fact. The infant plaintiff, while upon the railroad right-of-way and attempting to board the Chesapeake and Ohio train, was a trespasser. There was no duty owed to him by either defendant that was violated. (Lo Casto v. Long Is. R. R. Co., 6 N Y 2d 470; *935Scholl v. New York Cent. R. R. Co., 3 N Y 2d 989; Van Houten v. New York, N. H. & H. R. R. Co., 286 App. Div. 875, affd. 2 N Y 2d 739; Van Houten v. Long Is. R. R. Co., 279 App. Div. 1099; Ralff v. Long Is. R. R. Co., 266 App. Div. 794, affd. 292 N. Y. 656; Gleason v. Central New England Ry. Co., 261 N. Y. 333; Penal Law, § 1990, subd. 4; Railroad Law, § 83.) (Appeal from order of Erie Special Term denying- defendants’ motions for summary judgment to dismiss complaints.)
Present — Williams, P. J., Bastow, Henry, Del Vecchio and Marsh, JJ.