Strutt v. Brooklyn & Rockaway Beach Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on. the 5th day of February, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of February, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J. :
This action was brought to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence. The defendant maintained at Rockaway Beach a pier or wharf at which its steamboats landed, and a hotel and music stand adjacent to it. There was a walk or promenade over forty feet wide made of planks, built from the landing place to the railroad station. On the wharf there was a hydrant from which water was furnished to the defendant’s steamboats and those of other parties. Attached to the hydrant-was a rubber hose, three or four inches in…
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