Stern v. City of New York

— In this action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained on a subway platform, defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff. Judgment reversed on the law and the facts and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. The only testimony in behalf of plaintiff, an aged woman, with respect to the happening of the accident, was her own, which was in substance that she was thrown over by people pushing their way off or on a train that had stopped at the overcrowded, unguarded platform upon which she had been waiting. Defendant produced…