Willis v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles E. Willis, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 2d day of January, 1902,. upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, and also from an order, entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of December, 1901, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:. The plaintiff’s complaint alleged: “ The plaintiff lawfully attempted to board an east-bound car of the defendant upon 14th street at or near its intersection with Fourth avenue * * * and while so lawfully attempting to board the defendant’s said car, the defendant’s conductor in charge of said car negligently, carelessly and recklessly interfered with said plaintiff, by reason whereof said plaintiff was thrown from said car into the street and severely injured.” The evidence of the plaintiff tended to show that at about .eight o’clock in the evening of July 28, 1900, the…
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- Stewart v. . Brooklyn and Crosstown R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1882
- Nicholson v. . the Erie Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Kain v. . LarkinNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Palmeri v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
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- Brown v. PoritzkyNew York Court of Appeals · 1972