Brady v. Consolidated Traction Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

In this case the plaintiff sued to recover compensation for injuries resulting from a collision with a car of the defendant in December, 1897. He having obtained a *26verdict, the trial justice allowed a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside.

The testimony shows that, -between three and four o’clock in the afternoon, as the car was going up Newark avenue in Jersey City, on the northerly track, the plaintiff, a boy about nine and a half years old, playing with other boys, ran down the avenue on the southerly side and then…