Kinne v. International Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by^ the defendant, the International Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff,, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Niagara on the 29th day of April, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $17,750* and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office-on the 9th d,av of May, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff, while a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars, was very seriously injured in a collision at Burt, in the county of Niagara, on July 4, 1903: The liability of the defendant was conceded. upon the trial, and the only question litigated was the amount of damages to which the plaintiff was entitled.
He was twenty-eight years of ágé, a route agent in the rural free delivery service of the national government at a salary of $600 a year, and has obtained a verdict of $17,775. In the collision others-were injured, and much publicity was given to the catastrophe in -the…
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