LANDBY v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD R.R. CO.


278 A.D. 965 (1951)

Antoinette Landby, as Executrix of Edward G. Landby, Deceased, Appellant, v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

June 18, 1951.


Decedent, an experienced electrician, was electrocuted on defendant railroad's property, apparently in an attempt to remove a foreign wire which had been thrown over said defendant's high tension wire by children some hours before. The scene was not near a road or highway and no one had been in the immediate vicinity for at least an hour prior to the accident, although there was proof that children played on the railroad's premises from time to time, and several children...

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