Paine v. Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls & Cayuga Lake Traction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls and Cayuga Lake Traction Company, from a judgment of. the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Seneca on the 21st day of June, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of June, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, the Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls and Cayuga Lake Traction Company, from a judgment of. the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Seneca on the 21st day of June, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of June, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action was commenced in Hovember, 1905, to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused solely through the…
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, P. J.:
The evidence given on behalf of the plaintiff tended to prove that on the 25th of August, 1905, the plaintiff,-then twelve years of age, boarded one of the defendant’s street cars in the village of Waterloo, N. Y. He was accustomed to ride on street cars alone, was seated in a seat in the ordinary way and looking backward toward the rear of the car, when he heard an explosion, saw .two of the passengers jump to their feet, looked toward the front of the car and saw flames issuing from the controller box and extending nearly to the roof of the car, saw the motormah jump to one…
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