Jordan v. American Sight Seeing Coach Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the American Sight Seeing Coach Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of March, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $600, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of April, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
This is an action to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, a boy eleven years old, who was run over and killed by a sight-seeing automobile owned by defendant. Decedent, a school boy, was standing on the sidewalk on the south side of East Sixty-fifth street, opposite the parochial school situated on the north side of said street, about the middle of the block between Third and Lexington avenues. It was shortly before nine in the morning of a bright day in May. The automobile was proceeding at a medium rate of speed on the north side of Sixty-fifth street in a…
2Cited by1 opinion
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