Wood v. Brooklyn City Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn City 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 Kings on the 8th day of February, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered .after a trial at a Trial Term of said court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of February, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This is an action to recover damages for pei’sonal injuries. The plaintiff entered as a passenger upon an open car of the defendant, which was so crowded that he was obliged to ride on the step that runs along the side of that class of cars. As the car was proceeding on its course along Klatbush avenue, a team of horses, drawing a truck, was being watered at a trough along the curb. The team and track stood somewhat diagonally in the street, the heads of the horses being at the trough and the rear end of the truck further out in the camageway. As the car passed the track the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Clark v. . Eighth Avenue Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1867
- Vail v. . Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- McGrath v. Brooklyn, Q. C. & S. RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1895
- O'Malley v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
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