Lang v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Interborough Rapid Transit Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 7th day of June, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,600, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of June, 1919, denying the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, made upon the minutes, in an action brought by the plaintiff to…
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Appeal by the defendant, Interborough Rapid Transit Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 7th day of June, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,600, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of June, 1919, denying the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, made upon the minutes, in an action brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendant for personal injuries claimed to have been sustained by her as the result of defendant’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Merrell, J.:
The defendant operates a subway electric train sérvice running through the boroughs of The Bronx and Manhattan, in the city of New York. As a part of said subway system the defendant maintains an elevated station at One Hundred and Seventy-fourth street in the borough of The Bronx. The plaintiff, by occupation a nurse, on June 15, 1917, in boarding one of the defendant’s south-bound subway trains at the said One Hundred and Seventy-fourth street station, stepped into a narrow space, which she describes as eight inches in width, between the station platform and the defendant’s car…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lafflin v. . Buffalo Southwestern R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Ryan v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Specht v. . Waterbury Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1913
- Smith v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Weill v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911
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- Williams v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
- Farmer v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1924
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