Geisendorfer v. Union Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Union Railway Company of. New York City, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the- office o.f the clerk of the "county of New York on the 1st day of July, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the lltli day of July, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for anew trial made-upon the minutes. . •
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin,, J,:
This action is brought- to recover damages- for personal injuries received by the plaintiff in a collision between a north-bound car of the defendant on Webster avenue and a sprinkling cart On which the plaintiff was riding at about two o’clock in the afternoon on the '27th day of August, 1905. It was a doubling sprinkling cart and the plaintiff was driving. He was passing out of One .Hundred and Eighty-third street westerly into Webster avenue, intending to turn southerly on that avenue. It appears by his own testimony that he came down a descending grade and did not look for…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hewlett v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Brooks v. International Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906