Newark Passenger Railway Co. v. Block
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. Fanny Block, the defendant in error, brought an action of tort against the Newark Passenger Railway Company, the plaintiff in error, in the Essex Circuit, to recover damages for an injury received from a car of the company running in a public street. After the evidence was all in, counsel for the railway company requested the judge to direct a verdict in its favor. The request was refused and exception was taken.
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On error to the Supreme Court. Fanny Block, the defendant in error, brought an action of tort against the Newark Passenger Railway Company, the plaintiff in error, in the Essex Circuit, to recover damages for an injury received from a car of the company running in a public street. After the evidence was all in, counsel for the railway company requested the judge to direct a verdict in its favor. The request was refused and exception was taken. Other exceptions were taken to the charge and to refusals to charge as requested. After judgment in favor of defendant in error, the cause was removed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Magie, J.
In support of the assignment of errors founded on the exception to the refusal of the trial judge to direct a verdict for plaintiff in error, it is insisted that the evidence (all of which is contained in the bill of exceptions) showed that there was no negligence on its part producing the injury for *607which the action was brought, but that there was negligence on the part of the defendant in error producing or contributing to produce her injury.
In reviewing a judgment founded on a verdict directed by the trial judge after the whole evidence was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Crue v. CaldwellSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1889
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