May v. City of Brooklyn

This action was brought to recover damages for injuries ■claimed to have been caused solely through the negligence of defendant. By consent, the cause was tried before the court without a jury. The court gave plaintiff judgment for $338.50 damages and costs, and defendant appeals therefrom.

Dinsmore place, the locus in quo where the accident occurred, is in the Twenty-Sixth ward of this city, formerly the town of Hew Lotts. About the year 1859 the city of Brooklyn purchased a strip of land in the then town of Hew Lotts, situated on Atlantic avenue, Locust street, and Chestnut street, and…