Perel v. New York Railways Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, New York Railways Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ne York on the 5th day of March, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of March, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
On the 4th day of December, 1916, the plaintiff’s intestate, who was eighteen years of age, while crossing the north-bound track of the defendant on Eighth avenue, between One Hundred and Forty-seventh and One Hundred and Forty-eighth streets, in a westerly direction about the middle of the block, was struck and killed by a north-bound car. This is a statutory action to recover for his death.
The testimony presented on the part of the plaintiff tended to show that the decedent resided at No. 2774 Eighth avenue, which was sixty feet northerly of One Hundred and Forty-seventh…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bambace v. Interurban Street Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1907
3Cited by1 opinion
- Maher v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1926