Kavanagh v. New York Transportation Co.

The plaintiff, a cab driver, was injured through a collision between his cab and an automobile owned by defendant, under circumstances which, as is charged and as the jury found, pointed to the negligence of defendant’s servant as the cause of the collision. The appellant points to what it alleges to have been error on the part of the trial court in allowing certain questions to be put to a medical witness called by the plaintiff. The immediate injuries which plaintiff received were not very serious, but after the accident he appears to have suffered a good deal from rheumatism, and much of…