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TSITSERA v. HUDSON TRANSIT CORP.

14 N.Y.2d 855 (1964)

Helen G. Tsitsera et al., as Executrices of Rose E. Tsitsera, Deceased, Plaintiffs, v. Hudson Transit Corp. et al., Defendants. (Action No. 1.) Hudson Transit Lines, Inc., et al., Respondents, v. Daniel Mazzola et al., Defendants, and Erie Railroad Company et al., Appellants. (Action No. 2.) Helen G. Tsitsera et al., as Executrices of Rose E. Tsitsera, Deceased, Respondents, v. Erie Railroad Company et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (Action No. 3.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 10, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Meyerson and Thomas V. Kingham for appellants.

Aaron E. Klein for respondents in action No. 3.

William R. Sichol for respondents in action No. 2.

Concur: Judges DYE, FULD, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and SCILEPPI. Chief Judge DESMOND and Judge BERGAN dissent and vote to affirm.

Order reversed, without costs, and the complaints in actions Nos. 2 and 3 dismissed upon the ground that the trial court erred as matter of law in failing to grant defendants-appellants' motion for a directed verdict. Since the evidence as to the circumstances surrounding the happening of the accident which damaged plaintiffs is undisputed, the question as to whether any act or omission of defendants-appellants was a proximate cause thereof was one for the court and not for...

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