105 N.Y.S. 1082 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1907
The indictment sets forth that on February 16, 1907, the blew York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company was a corporation duly authorized to operate a railroad for transporting passengers, and that at a certain point on its track there was a curve, “ along and upon which said line of railroad and around which said curve the said corporation did then and there operate and cause to iun a certain train of railroad cars drawn by two certain locomotive engines propelled by electricity and governed and controlled by an employee of the said corporation known 'as a locomotive engineer.” Also that on the day named the defendant was vice-president and general manager of the corporation, “ and as such officer and general manager had charge of and control over the maintenance of tracks and roadbed of the said corporation along the said line of railroad there, and the operation of all trains along and over the said line of railroad there, and the operation of the train of railroad cars drawn by the two locomotive engines aforesaid, and the employment and instruction of the locomotive engineers of all locomotives drawing all such trains and of the engineer governing and controlling the locomotive of the
Ordered accordingly.