Vollkommer v. Nassau Electric Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 14th day of May, 1897, upon the- verdict of a jury for $16,875 ; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of June, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order made at the Kings County Special Term and…
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Appeal by the defendant, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 14th day of May, 1897, upon the- verdict of a jury for $16,875 ; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of June, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 18th day of October, 1897, denying its motion for a…
1Per curiam
This action is to recover damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff is. a boy of some fourteen years of age. He and some other boys were playing football on the sidewalk on Marcy avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, on which street the defendant operates a trolley railroad. The ball was kicked into the carriageway of the avenue and rested on the defendant’s tracks. The plaintiff went in pursuit of the ball and was struck by the defendant’s car, the wheels of which passed over one of his legs, necessitating its amputation. The injury being very severe, not wholly unnaturally the verdict was…
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