Loudoun v. Eighth Avenue Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Eighth Avenue Railroad Company and another, 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 26th day of October, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from two orders entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of October, 1896, denying each defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Van Brunt, P. J. :
The plaintiff sued to recover damages which she sustained from a collision between a car of the Third Avenue Railroad Company and a car of the Eighth Avenue Railroad Company, on which latter she was a passenger. The evidence showed that the plaintiff entered an Eighth avenue open summer horse car at Eighty-sixth street, intending to ride to One Hundred and Thirty-first street The seats of the car ran transversely, and at the time of the collision the plaintiff was sitting at the extreme westerly end of the rear seat of the car, her' husband sitting next to her towards…
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