Buckbee v. Third Avenue Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Third Avenue Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 26th day of December, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $6,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of January, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a. new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The plaintiff’s judgment was recovered for damages alleged'to have been sustained while she was a passenger on defendant’s road. She was on a south-bound car on Third avenue, and as it approached One Hundred and Twenty-first street she became alarmed at the sight of flames shooting from the controller box and left the car. In stepping on or over the metal door sill at the rear of the car she claims to have received an electric shock, resulting in the condition of injury of which she complains.
*362The learned counsel for the appellant earnestly insist that there is no evidence in…
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