Bailey v. Jourdan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, James Jourdan, as receiver of the Kings County Elevated 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 28th day of January, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of January, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J. :
Daniel Bailey, the deceased, was a policeman in the service of the city .of Brooklyn. At about half-past eleven on the evening of Sep- , tember 5, 1896, which was dark, windy and rainy, the deceased and one Morgan, another policeman, were sent by the police sergeant from Sheepshead Bay to the twenty-fourth precinct station house, at the west end of Coney Island, with the police ambulance, for the purpose of bringing to the station house a drunken female prisoner. *388Morgan was detailed by the sergeant to drive, and was sitting on the front seat driving,- while Bailey was inside…
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