Downing v. City of New York

Plaintiff in this action recovered a judgment of over $32,000 for the death of her husband who was injured in December, 1924, while driving a horse-drawn truck along the north-bound car tracks on Ninth avenue in the city of New York about twenty-five feet north of Seventeenth street. The left front wheel of his truck was hit by the right front wheel of the city-owned truck going north which cut around intestate’s wagon, pushing it up against the elevated railroad pillar and throwing the driver off the seat to the ground under the wheels of his own wagon which ran over him. *445He died of the…