Killen v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad

Gayitor, J.:

The plaintiff showed herself on the witness stand to be more than ordinarily alert in her perceptive faculties and understanding; and she is of unimpaired health and physical activity. She went straight across the street in the middle of a block 200 feet long, and was hit by the front of the fender of a passing trolley car. She says she neither saw nor heard the car coming, nor looked to see if one was coming; except that at the curb she looked and saw the car at or approaching the next street crossing,' apparently slowed or slowing down for the crossing. There was no other car or…