Meyer v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• . .Appeal, by the defendant,. The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company,, 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 -13th. day of-..March,. 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after - a trial at a Trial- Term of the; Supreme Court held," In and for the ¡county of Kings, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s- office .'on .the lgtli day of March, 1896, denying the…
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• . .Appeal, by the defendant,. The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company,, 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 -13th. day of-..March,. 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after - a trial at a Trial- Term of the; Supreme Court held," In and for the ¡county of Kings, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s- office .'on .the lgtli day of March, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion- for a new trial made upon the minutes.- ■ . - This action was brought.to recover- the damages…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.;
The jilaintiff in this action did not sustain the burden.which the. law placed upon him of proving his own freedom from contributory negligence. ;
The accident which -gavel rise to the suit occurred-, on Kulton avenue near Throop avenue in the city of Brooklyn, on. the 29th day of September, 1894,. at about nine o’clock in the evening. The plaintiff had'been driving in a buggy along the south, side of Fulton avenue in an 'easterly .direction. ; When he reached a point about' seventy-five or eighty feet ¡from.. Throop avenue, lie turned his horse to.-the. left. So-..as…
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