Feldheim v. Brooklyn

Miller, J. :

The plaintiff, with three other .persons, was riding on the rear bumper of a crowded car. The trolley pole slipped off the wire, and the rope attached to it caught the plaintiff about the shoulder and cast his head against the vestibule window, breaking the glass and inflicting slight injuries, for which he lias recovered the judgment appealed from. He had often seen trolley poles come off the wire, and knew that when that occurred the- rope went up with the pole. He describes the car as traveling very fast, with a rocking and swaying motion. The only witness who testifies as to…