The action was brought to recover damages resulting from the death of the decedent, who was killed under the wheels of a Long Island Railroad train at Jamaica station on July 10, 1978. At the close of trial, the court submitted a special verdict to the jury in this form and received these answers:
"1. Was the defendant Long Island Railroad negligent in this case and was such negligence the a proximate cause of the occurrence? ...
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