Schilling v. Union Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Union Railway Company of New York City, 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 14th day of May, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of May, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
This was an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant’s servants in prematurely starting a car upon which she was a passenger. The plaintiff had a verdict.
The car was proceeding up the Boston road and when it was between One Hundred and Sixty-sixth and One Hundred and Sixty-seventh streets she gave a signal to stop. She testified that the car did stop and she attempted to alight. It was an open car. She and two other witnesses testified that the car came to a full stop and as she attempted to alight…
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