New York Court of Appeals February 6, 1900 (Godfrey v. . N.Y. Central H.R.R.R. Co.)

The substance of the plaintiff's complaint in this action is that the defendant, by its wrongful act, neglect or default caused the death of his son, a boy about eighteen years of age, which occurred on the 11th of September, 1895, in the defendant's station at Cape Vincent by the collapse of the building in a storm, whereby the young man lost his life.