Dehmann v. Beck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Reuben Beck, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 6th day of December, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,125, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of December, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The plaintiff entered a judgment for $2,125 damages for the death of his child upon a verdict at Trial Term in his action against the defendant based upon negligence. The defendant appeals.
*506The child, aged four and a half years, lived with his parents in a tenement in a built up block on Montrose avenue, a broad asphalted street in the borough of Brooklyn. The accident occurred on that avenue about half-past five o’clock in the afternoon of a clear day in July. The child’s mother while cooking supper suffered her child to go out onto the sidewalk with her sister-in-law. The child had…
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