Menella v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of tbe City Court of the city of New York, entered in favor of tbe defendant upon a dismissal of the complaint at the trial.
1Opinion of the CourtFreedman, P. J.
At the trial plaintiff’s complaint was dismissed before he had finished his case. The plaintiff and his parents are Italians, and the principal reason which led to the dismissal was that the plaintiff had failed to have an unobjectionable Italian interpreter in court, through whom his mother, who did not understand English, could be examined. The first man proposed for that purpose appeared *6to be a friend of the attorney for the plaintiff, and was to be called as a witness. Assuming that he was properly rejected, the plaintiff’s attorney proposed at least two other men, who he claimed were…
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