Adams v. Union Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Union Railway Company of New York City, 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 30th day of April, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,780, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of May, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Latjghlin, J.:
On the 23d day of September, 1899, at about six o’clock in the evening, the plaintiff boarded a north-bound car on the defendant’s Third avenue line at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and paid her fare as a passenger. It was an open car propelled by electric power, and between Wendover avenue and One Hundred and Seventy-second street, while it was running at a high rate of speed, it jumped the track and struck an elevated railroad pillar precipitating the plaintiff forward and inflicting injuries to recover for which this action was brought. The court instructed the jury,…
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