Schalscha v. Third Avenue Railroad
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by defendant from judgment of the Ninth District Court.
1Opinion of the CourtAd am, J.
The action was to recover $99.99 damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendant.
According to the proofs of the plaintiff (a professional violinist, and a member of the Damrosch orchestra), it appears that on the night of June 24, 1896, he was in company with one Hatch; that at Third avenue and Eighty-second street Hatch signaled to the gripman of an open car of the defendant to stop; that the signal was answered and the car came to a complete standstill. Hatch boarded the car first. The plaintiff followed him and grasped the stanchion of the…
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