Seggerman v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff recovered a verdict of $1,150 for injuries sustained by a collision with a northbound car of the defendant between eight and nine o’clock in the morning of November 2, 1899', at Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street. Hpon the evidence it was within the province of the jury to find that the motorman was negligent, and no error is claimed as to the charge of the court in that respect. The question of contributory negligence, upon a review of the case, is much more serious. The plaintiff was driving a single horse attached to a light wagon with pneumatic wheels,…