Sullivan v. Richmond Light & Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Richmond Light and Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 21st day of January, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $6,000,. and from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of January, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also (as stated in the notice of appeal) from an order…
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Appeal by the defendant, the Richmond Light and Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 21st day of January, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $6,000,. and from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of January, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also (as stated in the notice of appeal) from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of January, 1908, striking-out an amended answer and directing that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J.:
The action is for negligence, in that the defendant carelessly permitted one of its street cars to run down a child on the street and inflict physical injury. At the time of the accident the car was being operated by an eighteen-year old boy, the son of the superintendent of the defendant, in its employ as a clerk. The car’s regular motorman was also on the front platform. The principal question in the case arises upon the receipt in evidence, over the defendant’s objection and exception, of a rule of the defendant company that motormen must not permit any persons on the front…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stevens v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
3Cited by4 opinions
- Danbois v. New York Central RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1963
- Renoud v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937
- Renoud v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937
- Sullivan v. Richmond Light & RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908