Murphy v. New York City Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, sixth district, borough of Manhattan.
1Opinion of the CourtMacLean, J.
From the testimony of himself, his companions and his chaffeur, it would appear that, when the plaintiff’s automobile, running at six Or seven miles an hour westerly along One Hundred and Twelfth street, reached the easterly house line of Eighth avenue, a south bound trolley car was seen 125 feet above the crossing, coming’ at fifteen to twenty miles an hour (twenty-two to thirty feet a second; that the automobile was not stopped, but proceeded at the same rate until the chaffeur put on the brakes and turned the ear southward just before colliding with the car about ten feet south of the…
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