Hicks 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 clerk of the county of Kings on the 5th day of September, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $16,666, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of September, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
In June, 1898, the plaintiff, a girl of nine years, while going to school, was run over by a car of the defendant and thereby received injuries so severe as to necessitate the amputation of one of her legs at the knee joint. The accident occurred at the corner of Stockholm street and Central avenue, Brooklyn, and at the time the car in question was running along Central avenue in a northerly direc*480tion and at a high rate of speed; the child desired to cross Central avenue from the easterly to the westerly side. On the direct examination she testified: “ I got' to the corner and…
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