Knoll v. New Jersey Street Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This case lias been tried three times, and each trial has resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. The case arose out of an accident in which the plaintiffs wagon, which he was driving, was run into from the rear by a trolley car of the defendant company while traversing a public street in Newark. The points made for the defendant in support of the rule are — first, that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant company; second, that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence; third, that the damages…