Reilly 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 plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 24th day of January, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of February, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
This action arose out of a collision between one of the defendant’s electric cars and a coach driven by the plaintiff’s intestate, who was thrown from his seat and instantly killed. The collision occurred on Fulton street in Brooklyn, near the intersection of Clermont avenue.. Gates avenue enters Fulton street immediately east of Clermont avenue, at an angle of about forty-five degrees. The coach had come out of Clermont avenue and was moving up and across Fulton street north and east towards Gates avenue when it was struck and demolished by tbe defendant’s west-bound car…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Buhrens v. Dry-Dock, East Broadway & Battery Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1889
- Hewlett v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Schmitt v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- McKelvey v. Twenty-Third Street Railway Co.The Superior Court of the City of New York and Buffalo · 1893
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