Willis v. Metropolitan St. Ry. Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from trial term, Nassau county. Action by Sarah T. Willis against the Metropolitan Street-Railway Company. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, and from am order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The plaintiff, in company with her husband, was a passenger upon one of the cars of the 'defendant, traversing Fifty-Ninth street, in the city of New York, in a westerly direction, on the 30th day of January, 1900. It was customary for the cars upon this line to stop at or near the Columbus monument on Fifty-Ninth street, near Eighth avenue, to transfer passengers to the Lenox avenue and other cars. The hour of the accident was about 10 o’clock in the evening, and it appears from the evidence that the circle around the monument is paved with asphalt and is very smooth, that the circle is…
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