Hewlett v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 6th day of April, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of October, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
There are errors in the admission of testimony which require a reversal of this judgment. The action is to recover damages for the death of plaintiffs’ -intestate, resultant from a collision between Ms market wagon and a -car of the defendant, operated by it upon its 'street surface railroad on Myrtle avenue in the borough of Queens. About half after seven o’clock p. m. on March 2, 1900,. the plaintiff drove toward Myrtle avenue from Deboo place, and while turning into the former street the car came, into collision with the wagon, whereby the said intestate was cast down to his…
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- Buhrens v. Dry-Dock, East Broadway & Battery Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1889
- Johnson v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1889
- Read v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- Huber v. Nassau Electric RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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