Geary v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of October, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury for §15,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 31st day of October, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action under the statute to recover for the death of John Geary, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The decedent was a member ' of the fire department of the city of New York assigned to duty with Hook and Ladder No. 2 at Fiftieth street and Lexington avenue. On the 21st day of February, 1901, about midday, while the hook and ladder truck was passing westerly on Fifty-third street crossing Madison avenue in response to an alarm of fire, the truck was struck by one of the defendant’s south-bound Madison avenue cars. The decedent, who was…
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