Bliss v. Bergen County Traction Co.

46 A. 624, 64 N.J.L. 601, 35 Vroom 601, 1900 N.J. LEXIS 139

• Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey
• Decided: June 18, 1900
• Status: Published

Opinion

The opinion of the court was delivered by'

Garrison, J.

Error is assigned by the plaintiff to thenonsuit directed in the court below.

When this case was before this court upon a previous-occasion, Judge Nixon, delivering the opinion of the court, said that the trial judge had not erred in refusing to direct a nonsuit at the close of the plaintiff’s testimony. “There was,” he said, “ proof at that stage of the trial to show that the signals had misled the plaintiff below to his injury, and evidence had been given as to the possible existence of certain causes which may have led to the derangement of the-signals and whether the conditions actually existed, and if existing, were sufficient to cause the accident, and if they were sufficient, then whether they were in any way chargeable to the negligence of the traction company, were questions-already raised by the evidence, which was clearly the province of the jury to pass upon.” The. facts stated in that opinion and constituting the plaintiff’s case are, to all intents, the same as those that appeared in the testimony now before-us, and the language quoted so aptly and fully disposes of the present assignment that it may well be adopted without alteration in reversing the nonsuit that appears on this record.

For affirmance—None.

For reversal—Magie (Chancellor), Depue (Chief Justice), Van Syckel, Dixon, Garrison, Gummere, Ludlow, Collins, Bogert, Hendrickson, Adams, Vredenburgh, Voorhees. 13.