Connaughton v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Sun Printing and Publishing-Association, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of January, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,250, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 23d day of January, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action under the statute to recover for the death of Alexander Connaughton alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The decedent was a boy nearly eight years of age. The evidence tended to show that on the 3d day of July, 1901, shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon, the boy was standing on the easterly sidewalk of Bleecker street, near the curb, about *317opposite the line between Nos. 285 and 287, facing the buildings on the easterly side of the street; that the defendant’s newspaper delivery wagon was being driven northerly on Bleecker…
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