Camparetti 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 Municipal Court of the city of New York in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 1st day of March, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $249.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, P. J.:
This appeal presents but one question for review, viz., the accuracy of the charge of the court to the effect that the jury might award to the plaintiff whatever sum they saw fit to allow him for loss of earnings during the time he was absent from his work because of the personal injuries complained of. .He was injured, while a passenger on one of defendant’s cars, on December 8, 1903, and he alleged in his complaint that by reason of such injury he was “ entirely incapacitated from attending to any business whatsoever for a period of several weeks.” A bill of particulars…
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- Metz v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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