Reed v. Metropolitan Street Railway
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of February, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $650, and also from an order entered in, said clerk’s office on the 18th day of February, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a. new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
This is an action brought to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by defendant’s negligence. It was disclosed by the evidence that on March 27,1900, about five o’clock in the afternoon, the plaintiff alighted from an Eighth avenue car, bound northerly, at Eighty-first street and Central Park West,, stopped at the curb, which is quite close to the rail, looked up to see if a car was coming on the downtown track, observed none, and heard no sound of any when he passed to the rear of the car from which he had alighted and which still remained standing ; and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Oldenburg v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
3Cited by1 opinion
- Polacci v. Interurban St. Ry. Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1904