Wolpers v. New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Hew York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 11th day of April, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of April, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
Conrad Wolpers, Jr., on the morning of the 22d of January, 1903, between six-thirty-five and seven o’clock, was driving a covered batcher wagon through Jackson avenue, Long=Island City. When he reached a point about opposite the court house his horse, fell upon his knees and upon being pulled up by the reins the horse refused to respond. Wolpers jumped out of the wagon over the forward wheel for the purpose of ascertaining what was the trouble with his horse, when he came in contact with a grounded wire of the defendant, receiving a shock which rendered him unconscious. When…
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