Loudoun v. Eighth Ave. Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from trial term, New York county. Action by Imogene Hand Loudoun against the Eighth Avenue Railroad Company and the Third Avenue Railroad Company for personal injuries. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendants appeal. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brunt, P. J.
The plaintiff sued to recover damages which she sustained from a collision between a car of the Third Avenue Railroad Company and a car of the Eighth Avenue Railroad Company, on which latter she was a passenger. The evidence showed that the plaintiff entered an Eighth Avenue open summer horse car at Eighty-Sixth street, intending to ride to One Hundred and Thirty-First street. The seats of the car ran transversely, and at the time of the collision the plaintiff was sitting at the extreme westerly end of the rear seat of the car, her husband sitting next to her towards the east. As the Eighth…
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