McCherry v. Snare & Triest Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Snare & Triest Company and another, 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 19th day of March, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, which was reduced by stipulation to $1,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of March, 1908, denying the defendants’ motions for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
While the plaintiff was a passenger upon one of the trains of the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, on’ the morning of December 20, 1905, she was injured by broken glass cutting her about the head arid neck. This broken glass came from the windows of the- car in which she was sitting as the result of á collision with a large beam or girder which was being brought into place by a contractor for the purpose of making changes in the platform at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn bridge. The plaintiff secured a verdict for $3,000., which the learned court at the the…
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