Keenan v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Metropolitan Street Railway 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 14th day of March, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of March, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
The plaintiff has recovered a verdict for $1,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained in consequence of personal injuries to his wife, alleged to have been caused by defendant through the negligence of its servants in starting a car, which had been stopped at a point where passengers were customarily received and discharged, pursuant to her signal while she “ was in the act of alighting therefrom.” It is not clear from the manner in which the case was submitted to the jury that the verdict was rendered on the theory of negligence in starting the car while the passenger was…
2Cited by1 opinion
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