Bollinger v. Interurban Street Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the City Court of the city of New York entered in favor of the plaintiff, after a trial before the court and a jury, and also from an order "denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
This is a husband’s action for the recovery of damages suffered by him in consequence of an accident to his wife. The claim is that after the wife, who was carrying a child in her arms, had safely boarded the car — a closed one — and was entering the car from the rear platform, the car was started with such a violent jerk that she was thrown forward on to her knees, and that then the car was stopped with a jerk so violent that she was thrown backward on to *294her back. The only evidence as to the accident was given by the injured wife and her sister, the defendant proving that it had received no…
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