Weitzman v. Nassau Electric Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from trial term. Action by Louis Weitzman, as administrator of Harry Weitzman, •deceased, against the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, to recover damages for the death of intestate. From a judgment for defendant and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
Harry Weitzman, plaintiff’s intestate, was, on the evening of the 9th day of May, 1897, upon Rockaway avenue, in the city of Brooklyn. He was at that time about five years of age, and was in the act of passing from a candy store, at No. 386, to his home, on the opposite side of the street, where his sister, a *906young woman of twenty-four, awaited him upon the veranda. He was about seventy-five feet from the corner of G-lenmore avenue, and the car of the defendant, at the time the child left the sidewalk to pass over the street, was at this corner. The distance from the curb line to the first…
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