Bopp v. New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from trial term, New York county. Action by Ida E. Bopp, an infant, by John H. Bopp, her guardian ad litem, against the New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Company and J. F. Otto Meyer, doing business in the city of New York under the name of Otto- Meyer & Co. Judgment for plaintiff for $1,730.06, and both defendants appeal. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtHatch, J.
This action was brought to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff while riding in a vehicle of the electric company. It was disclosed by the evidence that the plaintiff and two other women were being carried down Eighth avenue, and at about the intersection of Thirty-Eighth street the vehicle and a beer truck collided, the effect of which was to throw the plaintiff violently against the dashboard of the vehicle, from which she suffered injuries. The testimony upon the part of the plaintiff’s witnesses tended to show that the person in control of the vehicle turned out to pass the beer…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Sternfels v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- Kirby v. President of Delaware & H. Canal Co.New York Supreme Court · 1895
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- Butler v. CarilloAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1904