Read v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights 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 25th day of February, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for $25,000, rendered after a trial at the Kings' County Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of March, 1898, denying the motion of the defendant for a new trial made upon the minutes. ■
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This is an action to recover damages sustained by the widow and next of kin of John J. Read, deceased, in consequence of his death . through the alleged negligence of the defendant. The evidence as to the accident was substantially all furnished- by the conductor and motorman of the defendant at .the time of the accident, who have since left the employ of the company, and the facts submitted to the jury tended to establish that on the 23d day of August, 1895, the plaintiff’s intestate was killed by coming into collision with one of the cars of the defendant at the junction of…
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