Villiers v. Third Avenue Railroad

The action is for negligence resulting in personal injury.

The complaint alleges: “ That on or about the 18th day of September, 1896, between about noon and 1 o’clock in the afternoon, while plaintiff was'driving in a carriage, drawn by a horse, along said Seventh avenue in a northerly direction, on the easterly side of .said avenue, and was about to cross the- southerly or eastbound track of the defendant in said One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, defendant so carelessly and negligently moved an eastbound motor, moved, as plaintiff is informed and verily believes by compressed air, as to…